p stylemargin 0in 0in 10pt classMsoNormalfont size3 faceCalibriThe long awaited Harford County Fire Study of the Fire and EMS system in Harford County was released yesterday.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanChief Hurst President Packard and Treasurer Gamatoria attended the briefing by County Executive David Craig.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe Fire Study is now referred to as the Harford County Fire and EMS Master Plan.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe Fire Study was done with all 12 departments in Harford County in 2008.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe final recommendations are for the entire County and not each department.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanEach department was not rated and each departmentrsquos strengths and weaknesses were not listed.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanA commission has been appointed by County Executive David Craig and the Commission will decide which recommendations to endorse and the priority of those recommendations.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanWith that being said SHCO has few recommendations that affect us.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanSHCO has either already addressed the issue never had an issue to begin with or the issue does not pertain to SHCO.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanSHCO feels there is always room for improvement and looks forward to working on those few recommendations that pertain to us.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanIn the coming weeks Chief Hurst will address each of the over 100 recommendations and how they pertain to the Susquehanna Hose Company.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThis will be done via fonta hrefhttpwww.susquehanna5.comfont size3 faceCalibriwww.susquehanna5.comfontafont size3font faceCalibri.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanopopfontfontpp stylemargin 0in 0in 10pt classMsoNormalfont size3font faceCalibriThe Susquehanna Hose Company recently received an ISO Class 2 rating.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe Insurance Services Office is a certified agency that grades each fire department in the United States.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe rating is from 1-10 with 1 being the best fire protection available with no room for improvement.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThere are currently only 60 Class 1 fire departments in the United States 58 of those are paid career fire departments.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanCurrently there is no Class 1 fire department in the State of Maryland.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe Susquehanna Hose Company and the Baltimore City Fire Department are the only Class 2 Fire Departments in the State of Maryland.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanAn ISO Class 2 fire department has little room for improvement.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe Susquehanna Hose Company provides without question some of the best fire protection available in the United States career or volunteer.opopfontfontpp stylemargin 0in 0in 10pt classMsoNormalfont size3 faceCalibriThe Susquehanna Hose Company would like to thank County Executive David Craig for his support of the volunteer fire and EMS service in Harford County.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanThe entire Master Plan for Harford County Fire and EMS can be found at fonta hrefhttpwww.harfordcountymd.govInterestsDocuments4.pdffont size3 faceCalibrihttpwww.harfordcountymd.govInterestsDocuments4.pdffontafont size3font faceCalibri.span stylemso-spacerun yesnbsp spanfontfontopopppnbspp
