Matthew J MauerLake City, IA

Battalion Chief, Kansas City Fire Department Aircraft Rescue Division at Kansas City Fire Department, General Vice-President at International Association of Fire Fighters Local 3808 Kansas City Chief Officers, President at Public Safety Concern (PAC), editorial board at ARFF Working Group, Representative at Kansas City Health Care Trust, Missouri State Coordinator, Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Working Group at arffwg

Kansas City, Missouri

Public Safety

Kansas City Fire Department - Kansas City, Missouri Area (Kansas City Downtown and International Airports) since Feb 2005
Battalion Chief, Kansas City Fire Department Aircraft Rescue Division International Association of Fire Fighters Local 3808 Kansas City Chief Officers since 2010
General Vice-President Public Safety Concern (PAC) - Kansas City, Missouri Area since Aug 2010
President ARFF Working Group - arffwg.org since Nov 2011
editorial board Kansas City Health Care Trust - City of KCMO since Aug 2012
Representative arffwg since 2005
Missouri State Coordinator, Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Working Group Kansas City Fire Department - Kansas City, Missouri 1989 - 2013
Firefighter/EMT, Fire Apparatus Operator, Captain, Battalion Chief

University of Missouri-Kansas City 1978 - 1982
B.A., Communications Studies Rockhurst University- Labor Management Institute 2005 - 2006
(certificated program), Labor-Management Relations University of Kansas 2012 - 2012
NDS, Fire Science/Fire-fighting National Emergency Training Center
National Fire Academy
Chemistry of Hazardous Materials

Park Hill schools, Park Hill High School Swim and Dive Team, Boy Scouting, Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting, Kansas City politics, spinal injury and rehab, diabetes, flyfishing, emergency services instruction, good food, youth lacrosse, supporting others in their cancer fight

FAA Airport Safety Enhancement Award to Downtown Airport (with KCMO Downtown Airport and their staff)
Federal Aviation Administration
Downtown Airport received the prestigious FAA Airport Safety Enhancement Award this September KCFD will share in that award at the insistence of Mike Roper, Downtown Airport manager. This award means that the airport, for three consecutive years has had no discrepancies in any area including ARFF when inspected by the FAA and no violations. MKC has maintained this high standard during a period of near-constant construction on the airfield and while simultaneously resolving the large sinkhole at the north end. Very few airports ever get this award. MKC is getting its second (back to back) award. The award is not for heroics at any incident, but for day-in, day-out, solid professionalism and high degree of attention to safety. The involved personnel should be officially commended for their work and the ongoing way they have represented the KCFD. All of the credit for our portion of this success goes to Captain Marshall, Battalion Chief 102 and DSO, and most especially the crews of KCFD Pumpers 8, 9 and 25. Perhaps the most representative story I can use to try to properly describe their professionalism is that a pilot who experienced a recent in-flight emergency out in western Kansas aboard a very small aircraft chose to limp it in to Downtown Airport for a belly landing, bypassing several airports with staffed, onsite ARFF protection in order to come to MKC. When asked why he took the exceptional risk of flying further, he responded that he has seen our firefighters out on the airfield repeatedly, training and practicing. He stated that he selected Downtown Airport (the furthest option he had) because he felt that the KCFD-provided ARFF protection there offered him the best possibility of surviving such an event. He made an affirmative choice to place his life in their hands. That’s a pretty high recommendation. I am proud of the KCFD and MKC personnel who made this happen.

Emergency Medical Technician, MO State Board of Emergency Medical Services