Fire Protection District
6020 Raytown Trfwy.
Raytown, MO 64133
816-737-6034 M-F 8 am – 5 pm
raytownfire.com
Our Mission
“WE EXIST TO HELP THOSE IN NEED”
Our mission is to provide the best service possible to our community. We provide a wide variety of services including fire suppression, EMS treatment and transport, rescue services, fire prevention and public education. We are here to help!
Our firefighters are some of the best in the country and are extremely proud of their Fire District. With their pride, comes ownership; an ownership that has been forged by a belief in core values such as pride, tradition, honor, and integrity.
We consider your family our family, and our firehouses your firehouses. Whether you are a resident, business owner, or visitor, our goal is to take care of you as if you were a member of our family, because you are!
COVID-19 has challenged our firefighters and emergency services nationwide. We continue to focus on providing quality, patient centered service during the ongoing pandemic. Our personnel are taking appropriate precautions to ensure patient and provider safety. While we are exited to meet this new challenge we also look forward to a return to normalcy.
If I can be of any additional service to you, on behalf of the Raytown Fire Protection District, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Respectfully, Matt Mace, Fire Chief
The Raytown Fire Protection District (District) staffs two fire stations with a pumper and ambulance at each station. A third station is currently used for training and reserve vehicle storage. While we share boundaries with the City of Raytown, we are an independent taxing entity. The District was founded in 1947 and is authorized to operate under Missouri Statue Chapter 321. The District is governed by a three-member board of directors with each director serving a staggered six-year term. The District employs 45 full time personnel under the supervision of an appointed fire chief. Each shift has 13 personnel, with one additional chief officer assigned as the shift commander. Our staff is deployed in three battalions which each work 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours off duty. Facilities, Equipment & Apparatus Maintenance divisions are responsible for three stations, three pumpers, one aerial, four ambulances and numerous assorted support vehicles.
The District has signed mutual aid agreements with all jurisdictions in the Missouri side of the metro area to send and receive apparatus and manpower should the need arise. In 2009, the District entered into an agreement with the Kansas City Fire Department (KCFD) for “automatic aid”. This is an upgrade to other mutual aid agreements. The District agrees to respond to calls for service within a geographical boundary for fire and EMS services. This is based on the closest available unit with the appropriate resources rather than city limits or jurisdictional boundaries. In return, KCFD responds to any request we may have for assistance. This includes structural fires, hazardous materials spills and leaks, building collapse rescue and high-rise fires. EMS transport services are still provided and received with KCFD on a mutual aid basis. With automatic aid, instead of just having up to 14 Raytown Firefighters, there could be as many as 43 firefighters on the scene during the first 12 minutes of a residential fire.
This is safer for our firefighters and our citizens as more time critical tasks can be performed simultaneously. Rescues and medical care can be provided sooner and fire losses can be reduced by leveraging the increased response. The significance of this is compounded when you factor in the use of lightweight construction materials in modern construction. A structure built in the 1980’s can be exposed to fire for 18-24 minutes before collapse whereas a lightweight structure may fail in as little as 7 minutes.
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) assigned Raytown a class 1 rating in 2018. This is the best rating assigned by ISO. We maintain that rating in 2022. This was a significant improvement from the previous class 4 rating. This rating is used to set the insurance rates for commercial properties. Most insurance underwriters also factor in this classification when they set the insurance rate for residential. The lower the classification number, the better the fire delivery and the possibility of lower insurance premiums.
In 2021 the Fire District responded to 7432 calls for service, the ratio between fire related and emergency medical incidents is approximately 86% medical and 14% fire related. Response times for incidents in Raytown average approximately four minutes and thirty seconds.
In early 2021 the Fire District was able to utilize Cares Act Funding to meet a long-term goal of establishing a Community Paramedic Program. This program is referred to as the Raytown HELPS Program and it is designed to help the citizens of Raytown live a healthier more self-sufficient lifestyle.
What does HELPS stand for. It is our focus to maximize the HEALTHCARE needs in the community, to provide EDUCATION to our residents and give them added knowledge, to support quality in living and providing LIFE SUSTAINABILITY and independence to the people of the community in need, to offer PREVENTION programs for disease prevention and to reduce the frequency of needing to go to the emergency department, and to provide the necessary resources and programs to make SAFETY an integral part of our patients’ lives. This program carries on the tradition of the Raytown Fire Protection District’s unrelenting drive to always seek new ways to help those in need.The Insurance Services Office (ISO) assigned Raytown a class 1 rating in 2018. This is the best rating assigned by ISO. We maintain that rating in 2022. This was a significant improvement from the previous class 4 rating. This rating is used to set the insurance rates for commercial properties. Most insurance underwriters also factor in this classification when they set the insurance rate for residential. The lower the classification number, the better the fire delivery and the possibility of lower insurance premiums.
