file photo by Boyd Loving
August 4,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Glen Rock NJ, The Glen Rock Volunteer Fire Department announced on Facebook Friday that the Glen Rock Volunteer Fire Department has been upgraded to an ISO Class 3. ISO ratings are on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the best and 10 not meeting the minimum standards. ISO ratings affect the communities’ insurance rates, the better the ISO class the better the insurance rates are for the community.
Insurance Service Office (ISO) evaluates the community based on these four factors:
– Emergency communications, how well the fire department receives and dispatches fire alarms.
– The fire department, including the amount of equipment available, maintenance and testing of equipment, type and extent of training, number of people who participated in training, and firefighter response to emergencies.
– Water supply, capacity for fire suppression beyond daily consumption, hydrant inspections and flow testing, and number of fire hydrants no more than 1,000 feet from the representative locations.
-Community risk reduction, effective fire prevention practices.
Wow that’s great news and they are all volunteers wow. I don’t understand how I found one in Paramus are just as big as Ridgewood if not a little bit bigger and they both have volunteer. Very interesting, some keep on saying that they couldn’t get volunteers on the b wow that’s great numbers and they are all volunteers wow. I don’t understand how found one in Paramus are just as big as Ridgewood if not a little bit bigger and they both have volunteer. Very interesting, some keep on saying that they couldn’t get volunteers . I know so many other miss about is that if you work for the town you have to respond to fire and EMS calls. I guess it comes down to political I’m not knocking fire department or EMS because they do a fantastic job the village is very lucky to have them. You would think this day and age every Mr. Pauly would have some sort of paid emergency responders/fire department EMS, it’s gonna be 2019 it’s a good thing