The Georgetown Fire Department is a municipal combination fire department located in the town of Georgetown, Massachusetts. The Georgetown Fire Department receives funding from a town budget, federal and state grants, ambulance transport billing revenue, as well as private donations. The department currently staffs a full-time/career Fire Chief, a fulltime-career Captain, and 5 fulltime-career Firefighter/EMT’s as well as 20 per-diem/on-call Firefighter/EMT’s.
ISO Rating
A community committed to saving lives and property needs trained firefighters, proper equipment, and adequate supplies of water. Insurance companies consider it good public policy – and good business – to promote and encourage the efforts of individual communities to improve their fire protection services.
ISO Mitigation Online collects information on a community’s public fire protection and analyzes the data using the Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS). ISO then assigns a Public Protection Classification from 1 to 10. Class 1 represents the best public protection, and Class 10 indicates no recognized protection. The town of Georgetown has an ISO rating of 4. Staffing, training, equipment and water supply weigh heavily on this rating.
Fire and Life Safety Education
The Georgetown Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Division is active in Fire and Life Safety Education.
Through our Fire and Life Safety Education programs we are able to deliver fire safety messages to various age demographics of the community. Our programs are geared for age groups from elementary school to seniors. Our programs consist of the following: smoke alarms installation, lock box installation, house number installations, home escape plan’s, do’s and don’ts of fire safety and many more. These programs are delivered throughout the year at various scheduled times.
Fire Inspections
The Georgetown Fire Department Fire Prevention Division conducts fire code safety inspections of all commercial and public buildings in our community on an annual basis. These inspections are intended to ensure the safety of occupants in these facilities and that they are meeting state fire code. In addition to commercial inspection, the Fire Prevention Division issues permits, conducts plan reviews, and ensures new or modified buildings and their life safety protection systems are incompliance with applicable federal, state and local building and fire codes. The fire department also offers home safety inspections along with residential smoke and carbon monoxide inspections as part of the resale of process, commonly referred to as 26F.