Kansas Department Achives ISO Class 2 Rating

July 10, 2004
The Insurance Services Offices has notified the Lenexa Fire Department that its Public Protection Classification rating will be upgraded.

The Insurance Services Offices has notified the Lenexa Fire Department that its Public Protection Classification rating will be upgraded.

The new Class 2 rating will go into affect Oct. 1. Lenexa's current rating of Class 4 has existed since 1978.

While no city in Kansas has a Class 1 rating, three other cities in Kansas have Class 2 ratings, including Merriam, Lawrence and Leavenworth.

The ISO rates on a scale of 1 to10, with 1 being exemplary. Ten is classified as having no protection. More than 46,000 fire departments across the country have been rated by the ISO. About 400 of them received a class rating of 2 or better.

Lenexa Fire Chief Kenneth Hobbs said that a proactive approach by past and current city councils for quality fire protection, along with the 2001 fire protection improvement plan, have made this ISO class reduction possible.

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