New Montgomery fire station delayed until spring 2009

The first new fire and emergency rescue station to be built in Montgomery County in more than 25 years will not open its doors until spring 2009, officials say, further delaying hopes of decreasing response time in the rapidly growing northern parts of the county.

County officials had hoped a new Germantown station would open this year, but construction issues are taking longer than expected to resolve. The last time the county opened a fire and emergency response station in a new community was in 1981, according to Fire Chief Tom Carr, when it debuted the one Germantown station that currently serves the city’s 90,000 residents plus people in Boyds and Clarksburg.