Fire Chief Steven Beer announced during a news conference Tuesday that the fire rating classification for the city of Hutchinson is changing from a Class Three to a Class One and that Fire District 2 is going from a Class Six to a Class Four.
Classes are scored on a scale of one to 10, one being the best while 10 is the worst.
Currently, there are only six Class One cities in the state of Kansas and only 329 nationwide out of 47,500 fire departments.
He says with being a Class One city, it’s good news for homeowners and businesses when it comes to insurance. Beer states that the Insurance Service Office Public Protection Classification program provides important up-to-date information about municipal fire protection services in each community.
He says there are four things they look at when coming up with a communities classification – Emergency Communications, the Fire Department itself, the Water Supply and the Community Risk Reduction.
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