The Grandview Fire department sent all on-duty hands to a house fire in the 13700 block of Parker at 12:09 am Saturday morning.
The fire reportedly started in the living room of the lived-in structure- and had spread throughout the house by the time the first firefighters arrived at 12:12 am..
Belton Fire sent a "mutual-aid" pumper truck to the fire- and KC-MO Fire sent a pumper company- truck company and a battalion chief to fill-in at an empty Grandview fire station.
Using at least 2 handlines- GFD had the fire under control by 12:35 am with no injuries reported.
Red Cross was summoned to the scene to render aid to the unknown number of the home's occupants.
A fire investigator was sent to the scene and the report was not yet available.
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3 comments:
Everytime there's a fire in these suburbs or any real medical event, these towns always call MAST and KCFD. What's the point of having a fire department if you can't handle a single house fire? This isn't some billion gallon oil rig fire next to a crippled children's hospital. This is a single family house.
I don't get it. If I lived in Grandview, I'd be asking myself what my taxes were getting. And if I lived in KCMO, I'd be asking why I'm paying taxes so the people of towns like Grandview and Gladstone and North Kansas City can soak up KCMO services without paying for them.
The only city that seems like it can handle a fire on its own, on the Missouri side, is Lees Summit. Maybe Independence, too. But that's it. The rest of these towns need to get their big boy pants on and start taking care of their people with sufficient staffing.
Heh- historic good point...
No municipality can staff for a worst case scenario- and frequently in these smaller suburbs- that means one or more working structure fires.
Kansas City-MO now actually has an "automatic response" from at least three suburban fire departments: Raytown- Lee's Summit and Southern Platte County (Parkville) Fire departments.
They run our incidents close to their municipal boundaries and KC-MO will run their incidents close to our city.
Heh- you ought to be listening to these radios when conditions EXCEED a "bad-case" scenario: a bad storm- extra-alarm fire- etc..
That's when the (no) fun begins....
-Groucho
I am just glad that Grandview, KCFD and Belton FD was able to get this family out. This could have definitely been more disatrous than it was because of the structure of those homes over there. Thanks to all FDs who responded.
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