THE RIDGEWOOD BLOG.
The Ridgewood Blog Brings a Free Market Laissez-faire Point of View to Local, New Jersey State and National Issues.
Rating system gives Ridgewood high marks in public protection
photo by Boyd Loving
Rating system gives Ridgewood high marks in public protection
Thursday August 2, 2012, 1:28 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The village will be bumped up to the second highest level of public protection ratings, according to municipal and Ridgewood fire officials who cited findings by the Insurance Services Office (ISO).
The Ridgewood Fire Department has earned a Class 2 grade based on the surveys conducted through the ISO’s Public Protection Classification system. A rating of 1 is considered the best, while a 10 indicates no recognized protection, according to the ISO website.
Ridgewood is one of only 11 fire agencies in New Jersey to have earned a Class 2 grade or better. Less than 600 of the 47,648 communities in the country that were evaluated by ISO received either a Class 1 or 2 rating, putting the village in the top 1.3 percent nationally.
Thank god we have a good Fire Chief.