CFP News

The ISO Public Protection Classification (PPC) program works with fire departments to analyze and measure their performance in the community.

) program rates the effectiveness and enforcement of building codes in communities throughout the United States.

Over the years, you’ve come to know ISO Community Hazard Mitigation for our data collection and analysis, particularly related to our Public Protection Classification (PPC) and Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS) programs.

The situation has become so dire that 33 states and 9 Canadian provinces made cancer a presumptive job-related injury.

One of the central topics facing the fire service is the fact that trends indicate fire risk has been growing in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).

According to Tom Harbour, former director of the United States Forest Service (USFS), 2015 was a record year for the national fire season.

With at least six lives lost and thousands of properties destroyed from raging wildfires, the summer of 2015 was a season of terrible devastation for Northern California.

ISO released the National Building Code Assessment Report on the status of the nation’s building codes, including individual assessments of each participating state.

The ISO Public Protection Classification (PPC) program’s Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS) is strongly influenced by the NFPA 1620 recommendation for annual preincident planning.

An interview with FLASH President and CEO Leslie Chapman-Henderson The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH ® ) is the country’s leading consumer advocate for strengthening homes and safeguarding families from natural and man-made disasters. FLASH collaborates with more than 100 innovative and diverse partners that share its vision of making America a more disaster-resistant nation, including...