In 1945, the first three bays of the Lexington Park Volunteer Fire Department, Lexington Park Station 3 were built. Since 1945 Station 3 has had four major modifications and two minor modifications.

In 1952 the fourth bay was added, this bay was the only drive through bay and housed Engine 34 and Tanker 3.

In 1975 the 5th bay was added which was used mainly to perform maintenance on apparatus and equipment. The station was remodeled removing the old engineer’s room and radio room making room for the rear wall officers gear racks and converting the hose tower base into the radio room.  Also added were a larger rest room and the two-stall shower and a small storage room.

In 1977 the Sleep-in program was started with 5 borrowed metal beds from the Navy in the storage room and shower room.

In 1979 the 2nd story was added, the new 2nd story served as the bunk-room until 1988 when the "A" frame roof was added over the engine bays which allowed the addition of more bunk room space, to include individual rooms for live-in's, and storage space later used as gear storage and engineers equipment storage.

With the growing demands of our community and the call volume increasing the apparatus needs to be replaced and upgraded, in 1995 the bay floor had to be dug out and lowered 12" to allow the new Squad 3 to fit into the firehouse. Soon after the Squad was delivered Bay District began to realize that we were outgrowing our aging fire station.  In 2005 steam pipes had to be moved and a header for the roof had to be modified to allow the new Engine 33 to fit into the bay. 

In 2002 Bay District purchased the building and land behind Station 3 that was formerly used as O'Brien Reality. This building was used for additional storage, office space. The building was also used to hold department meetings, training and the annual haunted house that was hosted by the Associates of Bay District. 

In 2003 Bay District formed the "New Station 3 Building Committee". The committee consisted of Doug Medley (Co-Chair), Bob Braddock (Co-Chair), Ray Hanbury, David Carroll, Wayne Johnson, Lauren Buhl (Johnson), Mark Warren, Anthony Thomas, and Jason Adams. The committee began to determine the needs of Bay District for the next fifty years. The members worked many hours in visiting other new fire stations around the state, determining needs of the apparatus and firefighters, and looking for land to build the station on. 

As land was in great demand in our first due area we were fortunate to locate a piece of property next to the new Lexington Park Library that was owned by local businessman Robert Gabrelcik  who was willing to work out a deal with us to purchase the land. After obtaining the land it was on to finding out what would suit the needs of the department for as you say the next 50 years. After countless hours of meetings and miles on the road looking at what had been built recently in the state of Maryland we came up with our own thoughts about what we would like to see for our members. After a three-year process from start to finish we dedicated our new building in August of 2006. Our social hall has been a great success as it’s rented almost every week-end and the revenue that it has generated has gone a long way in allowing us to purchase items that we would not be able to afford without the extra income.