FY2025 Proposed Operating and Capital Budgets

FY2025 Proposed Budget Organizational Budgets

Division of Volunteer Fire & Rescue Services

Division of Volunteer Fire & Rescue Services The Division of Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services (DVFRS) serves as liaison to the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services community. The Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association is an organization of 25 volunteer fire, rescue, and emergency medical service companies throughout the County. The volunteer companies provide fire department facilities, apparatus and over 500 active operational members who support emergency response on various types of incidents. In addition, many of these companies have extremely active administrative members who participate in fundraising activities, which help in maintaining facilities and apparatus to serve the residents and visitors of Frederick County.

The DVFRS consists of four full time employees who work on initiatives in support of over 2000 administrative and operational volunteers. The positions included within this Division are a Director/Deputy Chief, Assistant Chief, Administrative Specialist, and Volunteer Recruiter. Funding within this budget is used to support all the above listed entities for services such as staff salaries and fringe benefits, volunteer firefighter medical physicals, recruitment, volunteer incentive initiatives (Length of Service Awards Program), and the volunteer corporation matrix system, which funds equipment, maintenance, operational expenses, and utility costs. The Division is an operational component within the Division of Fire

and Rescue Services chain of command. DVFRS plays an important rol e in each volunteer member’s progression within the Frederick County Fire and Rescue Service, from their initial orientation through their participation as an incentive recipient in the Length of Service Awards Program.

Strategic Goals

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