Impressive ISO

The Glasgow Volunteer fire Department has been working diligently to make your tax dollars go as far as possible. Through a long grueling process, requiring many volunteer hours, our community has been awarded a better ISO rating.

Insurance Service Office (ISO) analyzes the structural fire suppression delivery system provided to our community. Basically how capable our Fire Department, water distribution and supply, and dispatch center can provide the residents of Glasgow with structure fire protection. ISO’s Public Protection Classification Program (PPC) plays an important role in the underwriting process at insurance companies.

In fact most US insurers – including the largest ones – use PPC information as part of their decision making on coverages and prices for their customers' policies. PPC is scaled from 1 to 10, 10 being no coverage and 1 being the best coverage. Glasgow’s previous rating was a 5. We have just received notification that our rating has increased to a 4 after our inspection last October. Only 25 percent of fire departments nationwide have a rating 4 or higher. Residents protected by the Glasgow Fire Department may see a decrease in their insurance premiums depending on their insurance company’s use of the PPC rating.

This Increase is only possible because of outstanding community support and a lot of hard work on behalf of all of the entities involved in the rating. Our goal has been set on improving this rating for many years. As we look forward we will continue placing emphasis on areas that we can continue to refine to improve our community's safety and PPC score.