Welcome to the Fort Osage Fire Protection District

Welcome Message from Chief Pottberg

Welcome to the Fort Osage Fire Protection District! Our web page is designed to provide you with some of the most recent information and activities that the district is involved in. Within the web site you will read about our personnel, different operations and emergency and non-emergency district support.

As a responsible government body the district annually conducts a strategic planning session to set out the goals and opportunities for the district over a time period of 1 to 5 years. As part of this planning we visited the Mission, Vision and Values that we would hope the communities that we protect would embrace.

The most recent review has promoted the following changes:

Mission Statement:
“We serve to protect your health, safety and property”

Vision Statement:
We are positioning ourselves today and for the future to be a responsible leader in emergency services through proactive training, education, risk assessment, employee and community involvement

Values:
Consideration * Cooperation * Honesty * Loyalty * Open Communications * Professionalism * Respect * Trust

Our efforts are to provide sound emergency services to protect those that live and travel through your fire district, and to support the communities and organizations with sound fire prevention and educational activities, while taking care of our most valued resource “our personnel”.

Greg A. Pottberg, CFO, EFO
Fire Chief

District Overview

The Fort Osage Fire Protection District is a career emergency services district which provides fire protection, paramedic ambulance service, special rescue, hazardous materials and a variety of non-emergency service to patrons within 115 square miles of north-eastern Jackson county 20 minutes east of Kansas City, Missouri. Protection is provide to the incorporated cities and towns of Buckner, Levasy, Sibley and River Bend.

The fire district borders Liberty on the north, Kansas City, Independence and Sugar Creek on the west, Central Jackson County FPD and Sni Valley FPD on the south and Wellington-Napoleon FPD on the east. The fire district is proud to have mutual aid agreements with each of these in an effort to support each other during high call volumes.

Coverage is provided out of three facilities: Station 1/Headquarters in Buckner, Station 2 at Fort Osage High School (cooperative effort with the career technology fire science program) and Station 3 in Salem East Subdivision. Station 1 & 3 are staffed 24 hours a day, while station 2 is utilized by off-duty personnel.

The district is staffed with 34 personnel that are crossed trained in fire protection and emergency medical as either an emergency medical technician or paramedic operating 4 engine companies, 3 ambulances, ladder truck, tankers and brush rigs.

Fire protection ratings are a class 5 within 5 road miles from the nearest fire station and a class 10 outside of five miles.

Click Here to view our District 2007 Annual Report.