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The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fire and Rescue Department serves as the primary responders for the fire, rescue, and EMS response for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport as well as portions of Virginia State Route 267 consisting of parts of the Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Airport Access Highway adjacent to the airport.
Muriel E. Bowser was sworn in as the seventh Mayor of the District of Columbia on January 2, 2015. On March 2, 2015, Mayor Bowser named Gregory Dean as Chief of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Dean previously served for 10 years as the Fire EMS Chief for Seattle, Washington.
The airport contains its own police department, fire station, and post office (Air Mail Facility). Decorative and semi-natural ponds bordering the sides of the airport terminal can be used by the airport fire department to put out fires. The air traffic control tower is 105 feet (32 m) tall.
An emergency response team with Washington, DC Fire and EMS make their way to airplane wreckage in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia.
The city celebrated the groundbreaking of a project to renovate, upgrade and expand Columbia Fire Station No. 1, which first opened in 1979. 'A long time coming' Columbia breaks ground on Fire ...
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is an independent airport authority, created by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, with the consent of the United States Congress, to oversee management, operations, and capital development of the two major airports serving the U.S. national capital: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles ...
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Since its formation as a paid department, the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department has entered 100 names on its Roll of Honor, including two individuals who were not paid members, Benjamin C. Greenup (representing the volunteers who died prior to the formation of the paid department, and William W. Hoake, a Civil Defense Auxiliary firefighter who was assigned to Engine 31 during World ...