Mount Washington Fire Protection District

06/21/2026

Please share this around the community! Mount Washington Fire Protection District will NOT come to your door soliciting fire prevention material. If someone does please call and report them so that law enforcement can make contact and investigate.
If we do show up at your house for any reason it will be in a marked vehicle.

06/17/2026

Mount Washington Fire Protection District is now accepting applications for full time employment. We are looking for new hire firefighters (KY Basic 1) as well as lateral firefighters (up to 10 years service credit).

All applications must be received by 4 pm on July 1st.

06/07/2026

MT. WASHINGTON, THANK YOU!! In 2025 our donation to WHAS Crusade for Children was $37,285.00. In 2026 our donation was $46,445.96. We had a increase because you dug a little deeper to support a great cause. To our Crusade coordinater Sgt. Michael Jones, you out did yourself this year. Rallying the troops, organizing the food donations, money counting, road permits and drinks to name a few things you did. Shannon Jones thank you for running all over the place picking up the food. It is greatly appreciated. This years Crusade was one of the best if not the best. Last but not least. The boots on the ground. You grinded it out all week long into the weekend. You were amazing and made it happen. All of your time and effort produced great results. Thank you!!!!!! 👨‍🚒 👩‍🚒 🚒 🚒

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

We are downtown for the Crusade for Children and up next!

06/05/2026

FYI:🔥 PLEASE READ AND SHARE🔥. It's WHAS Crusade for Children weekend. We have been at the intersection of Hwy 44 & Bardstown Road all week. We are headed around the bases headed for home. This is the schedule to close us out the rest of the week. NOTICE Sunday we will be closing down at 10:30 am. Our regulars that have made your customary check donations around noon on Sunday please try and have them at the intersection by 10:30am. We are sorry for any inconvenience we may cause but we are uncertain how long its going to take us to get downtown with I-65 being closed and are going to have to take surface streets. Thank you!!! Have a great weekend!!!🙂

June 5th - today - now until 6pm
June 6th - Saturday 9am until 6pm
June 7th - Sunday 8am until 10:30am

05/05/2026

FYI.... We need to share some Important news with you. This will be lengthy but informative. Last August 2025 the Insurance Service Organization (ISO) was here to evaluate the fire dept. Why should you care? Our rating directly reflects what you pay on your homeowners insurance premiums. Some insurance companies use the ISO rating system and some do not. ISO rates fire depts from a Class 1 (highest) through Class 10 (lowest). This rating takes into account operations, staffing, 911 emergency communication center and the water supply in the fire district. Points are given for each category and totaled for your fina rating.

We we notified of our new rating in January. This new rating took effect May 1, 2026... We are happy to report to you that we moved from Class 3/3Y to a Class 2/2Y. In the rating report, in 2025 there were approximately 502 fire departments country wide with a Class 1 rating. There were only 2,109 Class 2 fire departments in the country. We joined the Class 2 group😁!

What does all this mean? If you live in the Mt. Washington Fire Protection District you’re either going to be a Class 2 or a Class 2Y. If your home or commercial buisness is within 5 road miles of one of our fire houses and within 1,000 feet of a fire hydrant you are a Class 2. If you are within 5 road miles of one of our fire houses but greater than a 1,000 feet from a fire hydrant you are a Class 2Y.

Like I said earlier some insurance companies do not use the ISO grading system, but most do. You need to call and ask your insurance carrier if they use the ISO grading system. If so, ask them what do they have the fire department rated at. Our last rating was a Class 3/3Y. Some home owners were being charged at a Class 6/6Y.. that was wrong. You need to tell them you should be receiving the Class 2/2Y rating.

Our fire district is 42 square Miles. It includes the City of MT. Washington, Hwy 44 from the Spencer Co line to Halls Lane and back Halls lane. Then on Bardstown Road at the Jefferson Co line south to the Salt River Bridge. Then we cover Deer Wood Subdivision. We cover Kings Church Road all the way to Dale's lane and then take a left and go to the Spencer Co line. Basically the eastern portion of Bullitt County starting at Halls lane and head east.

If you are unsure if you live in our fire district, this is what you need to do. Do not send messages in messenger on here. Do not ask questions in the comments section below. Why? Because we are not always on Facebook and it may take a hot minute to get your answers back to you.

Please email us at mtwashingtonfire.com or
[email protected]. This way we can get back with you in a timely manner.

Have a great week and stay safe! 🙂