The recent back-to-back blizzards kept the Bowie VFD very busy. Our personell carried loaded stretchers long distances through deep snow, responded to car fires, and provided mutual aid to our colleagues in Anne Arundel County. Crews braved poor road conditions, blowing snow, and brutal cold to assist the people of Bowie. Fortunately, our mission was accomplished without serious injury to our first responders or damage to our apparatus.

Photos are courtesy of Deputy Chief Jonathan Howard (Chief 16A) and FF/EMT Steve Stearns (Company 43).

Crews had to transport one patient on a stretcher 1/4 of a mile through deep snow (Stearns).

Engine 432 on Queen Anne Road (Stearns).

View from the cab of Engine 432 (Stearns).

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Members of Company 43 clearing hydrants at Pointer Ridge and Parkington (Howard).

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Chief 16A's buggy in the storm (Howard).