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City needs new fire station to support growth in Seguin Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- The city of Seguin is in need of a new fire station. The Seguin City Council recently received an update regarding the city’s Insurance Service Organization (ISO) rating. Seguin Fire Chief Dale Skinner says they recently had a study completed that looked at the rating. The ISO rating is a complicated measurement that looks at the availability of emergency services, and it also measures an area’s proximity to the immediate access of those services. There are some other factors, but perhaps the most important to the public is the fact that the ISO can impact insurance premiums paid by people that live in certain areas of the city. “They help set insurance premiums for homeowners and businesses and they do that through the public protection classification or the PPC. From this point forward, we will just refer to it as a ISO rating.
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It’s easier to say that. So they help determine your rates. The insurance companies actually pay ISO for
Helping you find the right house to call HOME. BJ Jeffers
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them to actually do this work to evaluate communities and their capabilities. Don’t misunderstand
capabilities with competency. We are a very aggressive fire department. We are a very good fire department. ISO just comes in and looks at your capabilities,” said Skinner. Seguin currently has a solid ISO rating, but another station is needed if they want to continue to maintain that rating or look to improve upon it. “Our last evaluation was done in 2016 where we improved our rating from an ISO 3 to an ISO2 which is where we sit today. So as cities are assigned that PPC rating from a 1 through a 10 with one being the best and 10 being the worst. So 1 is you have all the capabilities needed to serve your community and a 10 can be no capabilities so a community with no fire department would receive a 10,” said Skinner. Chief Skinner says they currently cover a great deal of territory with the three existing fire stations in the city, but there is a clear need for another station. Fire Station, pg. 3