Eight million Texans are served by an emergency services district (ESD) when they have fire or EMS needs. If you live in an ESD, when the fire truck or ambulance shows up, it is likely the ESD that is providing the service -- not the city, county or state. For many reasons, this is good news for Texans.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT NO. 8 ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION THAN LAST YEAR’S TAX RATE.

Property Tax Rates in Montgomery County Emergency Service District No. 8 This notice concerns the 2020 property tax rates for Montgomery County Emergency Service District No. 8 This notice provides information about two tax rates used in adopting the current tax year’s tax rate. The no-new-revenue tax rate would impose the same amount of taxes as last year if you compare properties taxed in both years. In most cases, the voter-approval tax rate is the highest tax rate a taxing unit can adopt without holding an election. In each case, these rates are calculated by dividing the total amount of taxes by the current taxable value with adjustments as required by state law. The rates are given per $100 of property value.

Fri, Sep 11, 2020

At the request of the State of California, Governor Abbot has authorized state resources to deploy to assist with the wildfires currently active in the State. South Montgomery County Fire Department departed this afternoon for California under the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) along with other Montgomery County and regional fire departments. We pray for safe travels and protection while they work to protect the citizens of California.

Fri, Sep 11, 2020

In October of 2019 we relocated our crews from Station 11-1 to prepare for the demolition and rebuild of the Station. Today on September the 11th we were able to not only conduct our 911 Memorial service on site of the new building, crews also began to responding to emergency responses as of 07:00 this morning. Following the ceremonial pushing in of the apparatus.