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The
Sudlersville Volunteer Fire Company provides
Fire/Rescue/EMS service to approximately 62 Square miles
of Queen Anne's County, Maryland. This land is mostly
rural in nature. The town of Sudlersville, Maryland is 7
miles from the Delaware State line. Our station has 2
buildings which are connected through a breezeway. The
older section, which faces Route 313, has 2 single bays
and 2 double bays. The new building, which is in the
rear, has 3 double bays, with exits on either side of
the building. Our membership consists of 65 dedicated
men and women who pride themselves in being an all
volunteer organization and protecting the area in which
they live. SVFC runs approximately 225 Fire and 300 EMS
calls a year, although every year those numbers are
rising. The company is under the direction of Chief
Malcolm Faust and President Bill Faust. The EMS division
provides BLS/ALS service to the areas in which we serve.
The EMS division is under command of Captain Janice
Davis. They respond with a 1996 Lifeline "Highliner" on
a Freightliner FL60 chassis and a 2005 Lifeline
"Highliner" on a Freightliner M2 chassis.
Our Fire
fleet consists of: 2 Class "A" Engines, 1 Truck Company
(Quint), One Heavy Rescue, One Tanker, One Brush Unit, 2
Ambulances, a Chiefs vehicle, and utility vehicle.
Engine 61 is a 1985 FMC 1250 GPM pumper. Brush 6 is a
1986 Ford F-350 Brush unit with a 300 gallon tank.
Tanker 6 is a 1986/2000 Ford which holds 3000 gallons.
Rescue 6 is a 1995 Freightliner. Engine 64 is a 1997
HME/Smeal 1250 GPM pumper with 1000 gallon tank and 20
gallon Foam Tank. This unit also has a hydraulic ladder
rack. Quint 6 is our newest unit. It is a 2002 Emergency
One HP75, 75' Sidestacker Quint. It is the only ladder
company in the northern part of the county, and one of
only 4 in Queen Anne's County.
 Our
response area consists of residential, industrial and
agricultural settings. In our response area we have
Delmarva Sash and Door, located in Barclay, Southern
States, Harbor Sales, and numerous locations with farm
and other heavy equipment. We also cover portions of US
Route 301 - a heavily traveled highway connecting
Delaware/New Jersey with Washington DC, 3 educational
institutions, assisted living centers, and many homes
and small businesses. We also provide fire and EMS
protection to the town of Barclay, MD located 2 miles
south of Sudlersville, off of Route 302. Our diverse
population, rise in traffic flow, and steady rise of
population makes Sudlersville one of the leading
contenders for growth in the next few years.
 Our
response area is broken down into "Box Areas", or
geographical areas given numbers to have a better
understanding of the location of a call. They are also
used to set up apparatus responses for certain calls in
the CAD system. The numbers in Box areas in Queen Anne's
County are set up as (Company Number), in our case - 6,
and then the number of the specific box. Our box areas
are numbered 1-12, indicating we have 12 different box
areas. In certain cases, for Boxes 6-11 and 6-12, we do
not Respond First-Due to any call. In the 6-11 box,
Marydel Fire Company is first due on all Fire and EMS
responses; due to the fact that they are closer. The
same is with box 6-12; Millington Fire Company responds
first due to all calls, because they are the closest
fire company to the box. These boxes are only given a
Queen Anne's box number because it is in Queen Anne's
County. Click the picture on the right for photo of our
box locations.
We are
alerted through pagers that each member carries with
them. A set of "Tones"
are broadcasted from our Emergency Operations Center in
Centreville, to "trip" the pagers. Also used are the
whistles located on top of the firehouse, in the center
of town, and in Barclay. These whistles will soon be
used again for Civil Emergencies, to warn residents of
possible disasters of any type. |
