Kansas City area fire apparatus

[MFD76]

Leavenworth, Kansas Fire Department.



Home of the "Big House" yes the baddest of the bad are housed at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.



Leavenworth, Kansas is twenty miles north of Kansas City on Kansas Highway 7. Leavenworth is fast becoming a Kansas City Suburb. Leavenworth operates three fire houses with One 75ft Quint, Two Engines, One Heavy Rescue that cross staffs a 100ft Tower Ladder dry no pump and One Battalion Chief. Leavenworth only responds to fires and entrapment's. They do not provide EMS response unless requested by the county EMS. Leavenworth is unique in the fact that at one time three government fire departments operated within the city limits. They were the Leavenworth VA Hospital Fire Department, Federal Penitentiary, and Fort Leavenworth. Leavenworth now provides automatic aide to the VA Hospital and the VA Fire Department was disbanded. Fort Leavenworth responds from two fire houses and now protects the Penitentiary.