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ISO has embarked on a project to review and update the content of the Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS). We have developed a list of potential modifications, and we will beta test the revisions and confer with stake holders before finalizing the document. » Learn more

Fire Station Database Updates
ISO is updating our geographic database by verifying the latitude/longitude coordinates of fire stations around the country. » Learn more

ISO is pleased to work with the Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) to help protect critical infrastructures during man-made and natural disasters. For more information, see the FEMA brochure on EMR-ISAC. Or visit the EMR-ISAC website.

Every year, ISO participates in some 25 seminars, conferences, and other events for fire service officials. We often make presentations and lead workshops at these events. »Find out about future events.

How Economy Is Challenging Fire Protection Services

In this article, Mike Waters, vice president, ISO Risk Decision Services, discusses the challenges faced by our nation’s fire departments and the significance of ISO’s PPC™ program.

Fire department challenges
All types of departments — volunteer, combination, and career, as well as rural, suburban and urban — face challenges as a result of the economic recession. Those challenges can be hiring freezes, layoffs, postponing infrastructure projects, delaying apparatus purchases, and attracting enough volunteers.

ISO’s PPC program
ISO uses its Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS) to review a community’s fire-suppression capabilities. The FSRS helps insurers evaluate those communities using Public Protection Classifications (PPCs). ISO’s PPC program helps insurers keep up with changes in communities’ fire-suppression capabilities to more accurately price and underwrite policies. » Read complete article

Customized reports

Customized PPC and BCEGS® reports for your community are available by mail from ISO:

PPC report — needed fire flows for the commercial buildings in your community and details of your PPC grading survey (Available free to your community’s fire chief or chief administrative official)
BCEGS report — details of your latest BCEGS grading survey (Available free to your community’s building official or chief administrative official)

Mail your request on fire department or building department letterhead, as appropriate, or on your chief administrative official’s letterhead to your ISO Regional Processing Center.

Press Releases »

International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) President Jeff Johnson Endorses ISO’s Revised Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS) — January 19, 2010

Nation’s Fire Departments Face Challenges in Staffing, Recruiting and Training Firefighters, and Accessing Water, Survey Finds — December 1, 2008

Articles

Measuring Community Risks: The Value of Assessing Fire-Suppression Capabilities

Have you made changes to your fire department or fire district?

Have you improved or changed your equipment, personnel, training, automatic aid, or other features of your public fire protection? Have the boundaries of your fire district or the locations of stations changed? ISO needs to know. Please complete ISO’s Community Outreach Questionnaire and return it to your ISO Regional Processing Center.

ISO’s Mike Waters and Robert Cobb talk with Chief Billy Goldfeder in a program called Through the Smoke: What Do You Know about ISO?

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