Community Fire Protection News

Welcome to Community Fire Protection News, our online newsletter for fire chiefs and insurers. We provide concise and topical fire protection information, relevant community mitigation and insurance news, and more. We’ll issue this
e-newsletter quarterly to keep you informed.

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Latest articles: Winter 2013

• ISO’s Fire Suppression Rating Schedule: Reinvented and Revised
• Farmers Insurance and ISO Team Up at Fire-Rescue International 2012
• Western Fire Chiefs Association: Butch Cobb Presented with President’s Award
• High-Rise Buildings: Can You Minimize the Spread of Fire?
• Fire Chiefs Online Enhanced to Manage Your Community’s Fire Suppression Services Better
• By the Numbers
• On the Job: Anthony Zampella
• Insurers’ Report: Identifying the Nearest Fire Station
• You Make the Call: The California Wildfires of Fall 2008

Newsletter archive

• Winter 2013
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2011
• Fall 2010
• Spring 2010
• Winter 2010

Key Articles

• ISO's PPC Program Best in Class
• ISO Remembers 9/11 on Ninth Anniversary
• ISO Welcomes IAFC President Jack Parow
• Fire Departments Remember 9/11 on Tenth Anniversary
• ISO Brings Together Fire Service Leaders and Insurers at the Congressional Fire Services Institute’s Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner

Happenings in Community Hazard Mitigation

• IAFC President Endorses ISO's Revised FSRS
• Fire-Rescue International Highlights ISO Expertise in Fire Suppression and Community Fire Protection (August 2010)
• Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association Annual Conference Brings Together ISO, the NFPA, and the USFA (May 2010)
• National Fire Service Data Summit (January 2011)
• IAFC-VCOS National Fire Service Volunteerism Summit (March 2011)
• Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) National Advisory Committee and CFSI's 23rd Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner and Seminars (April 2011)
• Fire Rescue International 2011 (August 2011)
• Western Fire Chiefs Association: 2012 President's Forum (July 2012)

On The Job

• Mark Haskell, ISO Field Representative and Retired Fire Chief
• Kevin Kuntz, Verisk Commercial Property Assistant Vice President and Active Firefighter
• Jeff Edwards, ISO Field Representative and Assistant Fire Chief
• Peyton Bullen, ISO Field Representative and Assistant Fire Chief
• Ron Bateman, ISO Senior Field Representative and Deputy Chief of Operations

You Make the Call

• Incident Command House Fire
• Frame Building Fire Response
• Structure Fire Strategy
• Commercial Warehouse Fire
• Commercial Building Fire