Station 9 serves Edgemere and the surrounding communities in Baltimore County, Maryland
Station 9 dates back to 1943, when Baltimore County built a combination firehouse, district courthouse and police station with the addresses of 6800, 6802, and 6804 North Point Road, respectively.
The firehouse section was two stories high and consisted of a single engine bay with a hose tower in the rear. The firehouse included a watch room, oil room, card room, bunkroom, captain's room and kitchen.
The Edgemere Fire Station went in service on November 3, 1943. The first call came in on November 5, 1943, at 4:30 p.m., for a grass and woods fire on New Sparrows Point Road.
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round 1953, Edgemere citizens and the Edgemere Businessman's Association made an agreement with Baltimore County and the Baltimore County Fire Bureau to raise funds for the purchase of an ambulance for Station 9. The written agreement stipulated that there always be an ambulance at 6800 North Point Road. Ambulance 9 went in service in 1954.
On July 16, 1966, Engine 9 responded to the biggest fire in Edgemere's history, a multi-alarm at the Fradkin Brothers Furniture Store that eventually consumed an entire block. A current crew member, who was a boy at the time, recalls how the hot day became even hotter as the fire blazed on. He and his brother and their friends brought ice from local stores in their bicycle baskets to the spent firefighters. Two firefighters, Captain Bill Zacierkaand Fireman John Duerbeck, were overcome by heat and smoke and transported to City Hospital.
In 1987, as the Fire Department was preparing to assume firefighting operations at Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, County officials planned to close Station 9 and move it to Sparrows Point. The community rallied around the station, and it stayed, thanks partly to the clause in the 1954 agreement that an ambulance always be kept at 6800 North Point Road.
In 1993 the station was completely renovated. The refurbished station was dedicated on February 6, 1994.
Revised May 11, 2007
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