Dwelling Fire - Fishing Valley Road, Betterton

8/11/2026

At 6:44 am on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company was dispatched to the 13300 block of Fishing Valley Road, near Betterton for the structure fire. The initial 9-1-1 call was received by Baltimore County 9-1-1 (directly across the Chesapeake Bay) and was sketchy at best. Unfortunately, Cellular service here is spotty and unreliable. Only limited information was garnered before the call dropped, with dispatcher call-back unsuccessful. The 9-1-1 caller was reporting a large house on fire. However, as dispatchers are trained to get the location of an incident first (just because of situations like this) Kent Central immediately dispatched the fire incident.

Barn Fire - Wrights Neck Road, Centreville

8/11/2026

At 3:19 am on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company was dispatched as Mutual Aid to the Good Will Fire Company (Centreville, Maryland) to the 300 block of Wrights Neck Road, west of Centreville, for the Barn Fire. This constitutes a timed run of nearly 30 minutes from Chestertown.

Tree into House - Kent Street, Chestertown

8/10/2026

During the Severe Thunderstorm on Monday, August 10, 2026, at 5:35 pm, the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company was dispatched to the 200 block of Kent Street for a tree down into a house. First arriving Squad 6 found a large tree in the backyard had been both partially uprooted and snapped by straight-line winds. (There were no reports of tornado activity in Chestertown.) There were no injuries.