Improved ISO fire rating could mean savings
The report rates community fire departments from Class 10 to Class 1, with Class 1 being the highest.
According to the report, a community's ISO rating is based on getting the adequate water flow and supply for fire suppression up to 3,500 gallons per minute; emergency communications; and the fire department's equipment, staff, training, operations and community risk reduction.
Shelton commended the city's emergency communications department, which made up 10 percent of the rating, and the city's water department, which made up 40 percent of the rating.
The fire department made up the remaining 50 percent of the rating, which should translate to insurance premium savings for area residents, but Shelton did not know exactly how much homeowners could save.
He said it is up to each individual insurance company to set premiums based on the Class 2 rating, and encouraged people to check with their insurance companies.
"We should really see some savings within the entire community," Shelton said.
Shelton said most large insurance companies have their own rating systems for setting premiums, but most smaller insurance companies use the ISO rating.
The ratings take effect
City Commissioner
"A ladder truck takes in a 2.5-mile response district, and when you put one in the north end of town and one in the central part of the city, and they overlap each other, we cover all the multi-story buildings in the community except for the dairy," Shelton said.
The Meadowlark Dairy Nutrition plant is being built south of the ethanol plant on
"Insurance companies rate them totally separate because of the suppression systems they have within their own structures," Shelton said.
Shelton said having a high ISO rating is something all fire departments strive for, and he told commissioners that the GCFD is one of only 1,060 in the
The number of fire departments in the state that received a Class 2 rating was not made available in the report, Shelton said.
Commissioner
In a separate interview,
"There are only a handful of 1 ratings in the entire state of
In January, the
At that time, Knight said only three fire departments or districts in the state received a Class 1 rating and only 17 received a Class 2 rating.
He said attaining high ISO ratings involves the proper maintenance of equipment and a lot of paperwork and documentation.
"It takes a lot of work," Knight said.
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