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• SECTION I PURPOSE & SUMMARY Purpose of this report Indian River County officials requested Insurance Service Office Inc., to conduct a study regarding public fire protection features in their district and the impact that these features will have on the ISO Classification. This report will provide information on specific fire protection features which are derived from the Fire Suppression Rating Schedule(FSRS), a copy of which is enclosed with this report. The entire thrust of the FSRS is to quantify on a relative scale of 1 thru 10, the capabilities of a community to control and suppress a fire when it occurs, and thus to limit the resulting lops. ISO does not want or intend to set standards for communities to design their municipal fire protection programs. The schedule has been designed to first develop the average class of fire protection for the small to moderate size buildings, which comprise the vast majority of all buildings in nearly all cities(city can refer to both incorporated and unincorporated areas). This system compares the average available protection with the average protection needed for these buildings. These buildings are defined as those having a needed fire flow(NFF)of 3500 gallons per minute(gpm)or less. The second section of the FSRS develops public protection classifications for large individual properties having needed fire flows greater than 3500 gpm. Most communities design their fire protection needs around normally expected fires. This design is recognized in the differing concept between these two sections. The Public Protection Classification developed in Section I of the FSRS is applicable to the average buildings, and the influence of the fire protection demands for the larger buildings has been removed from that analysis. Section II of the FSRS is applied individually to each large building to develop an individual public protection classification that reflects the available protection at that specific property. c