The Beltsville Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. and Ladies Auxiliary were chartered under the State of Maryland on December 30, 1946. Charter members of the Fire Department were Stanley Bean, Albert Behnke, Delmar L. Bloem, Hans Borgwardt, Clinton E. Bowman, S.G. Brafford, Ben Brandon, Andrew V. Breen, Henry J. Breen, James D. Breen, Wade Breen, Joseph A. Chaney, William J. Chilcoate, William Clark, Paul Clements, Daniel P. Corrigan, Pierce M. Damewood, M.H. Davis, James A. Fitzgerald, A.F. Forrester, Curtis B. Forrester, John T. Gaffney, Richard Goehring, Preston Gregory, Louis C. Hemmstra, C.R. Horton, Robert J. Huston, Fred C. Knauer, Charles J. Kremann, Wiliam Kreman, David C. Lee, Howard M. Mabry, Robert D. Mahoney, Otto J. Meyers, Nolan P. Miller, Lawrence J. O'Dea, Melville H. Peters, Fred T. Ridgeway, Harold R. Schomer, John D. Smith, Paul C. Underwood, Henry C. Vaught, Sam Williams, and Roy L. Wood. Charter members of the Ladies Auxiliary were Helen Beard, Tess Bernota, Dorothy Bloem, Freda Borgwardt, Eileen Boteler, Agnes Breen, Laura Cady, Claire Carpenter, Dorothy C. Clark, Dorothy M. Clark, Cora Curtice, Lucile Dotson, Frances Drake, Sylvia Fitzgerald, Jessie Forrester, Beatrice Gaffney, Ethel Gedeon, Myra Goehring, Hazel Gosman, Eva Gregory, Edna Holliday, Ella Horton, Martha Jones, Lena Kerst, Lorena Knauer, Sarah Kremann, Wilma Lee, Hilda Mahoney, Edith Rauch, Matilda Rees, Vivian Ridgeway, Genevieve Rogers, Joan Rogers, Frances Stroup, Lucille Swales, Margaret Todd, Ethel Wood, Elsie Ziepolt, and Zelda Zimmerman.