The Claycomo Fire Department (CFD) is located in the Village of Claycomo, a very small suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. On April 24, 1951 the Village of Claycomo welcomed Ford Motor Company as a local business. In 1957 a special election passed and allowed for a city hall and fire station to be built. Our fire department provides fire suppression and advanced life support transport services to the
Village of Claycomo, as well as contracted Fire/EMS services to Randolph, MO and EMS services to Birmingham, Mo. We operate from a single station utilizing nine full time personnel, 3 per shift, in a 24/48-hour shift rotation. We supplement our full time staff with twelve-part time personnel. Currently, we cover a little under 3 ½ square miles with a residential population of 1720 (not including the Ford Motor Company Plant) in the three Villages/Cities. There are multiple apartment buildings in the Village of Claycomo. We also cover a couple of pieces of critical infrastructure. In addition to the permanent residents, we have the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (KCAP) that takes nearly all of the eastern half of our Village. The KCAP occupies approximately 1,600 acres, it has 4 major production buildings (3 in Claycomo, 1 in Liberty) that total 5,053,300 ft2 of usable area. The plant accounts for over 37% of our call volume. The plant produces approximately 7,116 F-150s and 2,040 full sized Transit Vans per week. The KCAP currently employees over 8,000 people spread over 3 truck line shifts, 2 transit shifts, and 5 maintenance shifts, plus managers and executives. These numbers do not include the transport companies that move the completed vehicles from the Ford Plant to dealers and staging lots. Ford has also increased staffing over the last few years. A second piece of infrastructure is the transportation system. We cover the interchange of Interstate 35, I-435, and US 69 Hwy. The two interstates have considerable volume of daily commuter, freight and transit traffic. Interstate 435 averages 5,592 commercial vehicles with a total of 17,878 vehicles daily. Interstate 35 averages 8,900 commercial vehicles with a total of 25,883 vehicles daily. We always have the potential for vehicles fires, motor vehicle crashes, and Hazardous Materials incidents. Claycomo also covers portions of two class 1 railways, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern. In addition to our area, we have mutual aid agreements with 10 surrounding departments and two regional/state mutual aid agreements. We have Automatic Mutual Aid with a neighboring department that has special needs school, nursing home, tank cleaning facility and apartment buildings. Nearly 10% of our current year’s incidents have been mutual aid to other departments. Within a 6-mile radius, there is a large amusement park, rail yards, the Missouri River, 2 Colleges, and 10+ schools.
