The Carol Stream Hearth Safety District has acquired a prime score from the Insurance coverage Companies Workplace, a company that evaluates fireplace providers throughout the nation.

The hearth district is one in every of solely 27 fireplace departments in Illinois to earn a Class 1 designation.

ISO charges every division on a scale of 1 to 10, with one thought of superior property fireplace safety. The corporate evaluates departments primarily based on personnel, coaching, equipment, gear, public schooling, water provide, in addition to emergency operations and communications.

Insurance coverage firms might use an ISO classification when calculating property insurance coverage premiums.

Carol Stream Deputy Hearth Chief Tom Nash helped oversee a greater than monthlong analysis course of.

“This new score is due to the laborious work put in by the women and men daily who work for the Carol Stream Hearth District and help from the Hearth District board of trustees,” Hearth Chief Rob Schultz stated in a information launch.