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Manassas Park fire chiefs outline ladder-truck capabilities, say staffing improves ISO score
Summary
Fire Department officials presented the city’s ladder truck capabilities — rescue, ventilation, extrication and master-stream suppression — and said staffing the truck helped raise Manassas Park’s ISO rating from a 4 to a 3; officials warned mutual aid response times and lead times for replacement trucks vary widely.
Manassas Park’s fire leadership on Nov. 18 gave the governing body a lengthy briefing on the city’s ladder truck, saying the apparatus is more than “a fire truck with a big ladder” and detailing how it is used for suppression, ventilation, technical rope rescues and vehicle extrication.
“We went from a 4 to a 3,” Fire Chief James Soper said, describing the city’s last ISO review in 2023 and explaining that lack of a staffed ladder truck previously cost the city points when neighboring Manassas’ apparatus was relied on as the primary ladder…
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