ISO Rating Change for Homeowners within 1000 feet of the new water line

An ISO Classification is a rating assigned by the Insurance Services Organization (ISO) to evaluate a fire department’s service capabilities based within its physical boundary areas. Many insurance companies utilize this rating in determining the cost of homeowner insurance policies. Not all companies use this rating system, contact your local insurance agent to determine how ISO ratings affect your policy.

West Yadkin Fire Department is continually making great strides to improve as a rural volunteer fire department by investing in our Personnel, Apparatus, Equipment, Fire Station, and more to get the most credit for our vast capabilities to strive for improved classifications at our next evaluation period.

Some criteria used to evaluate a fire departments fire suppression capabilities include whether the department is paid (active standby) or volunteer (variable staff on-call), manpower volume, apparatus (type and use of fire trucks), training, capabilities (services and skills), mutual aid (help from other stations/departments), water sources (wet hydrants-water system / dry hydrants-pond / water shuttle-tanker trucks), maintenance history, timed response benchmarks, and much more. Thorough requirements are reviewed on a regular basis between fire departments and the ISO group to ensure upgrades to local water systems (example- the newer hydrants on Hwy 21 & Old 421), improved vehicles, administrative management- emergency planning/preparedness and training are given credit to continually work toward the improvement of a departments ISO Classification.

More info about ISO Ratings from www.iso.org and www.isomitigation.com.

ISO collects information on a community’s public fire protection and analyzes the data using our Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS) and then assign a Public Protection Classification from 1 to 10. Class 1 generally represents superior property fire protection, and Class 10 indicates that the area’s fire-suppression program doesn’t meet ISO’s minimum criteria.

A community committed to saving lives and property needs trained firefighters, proper equipment, and adequate supplies of water. Insurance companies consider it good public policy — and good business — to promote and encourage the efforts of individual communities to improve their fire-protection services. That’s why, for almost a century, U.S. property insurance companies have funded key initiatives aimed at fire prevention and fire mitigation.

December 4th

The WYVFD Christmas Dinner & 2009 Awards was held at the Jonesville Holiday Inn. A Christmas meal was provided for the membership and family. Members had a chance prior to the event to vote on awards for the members for the following with the results of the ones that received awards.

2010 NC Fire & Rescue Schools