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In August 1997 the Fallon/Churchill Volunteer Fire
Department was awarded an ISO Class 1 rating. This is the best rating
obtainable by any fire department, whether paid or volunteer, large or
small. Their department was the smallest ISO Class 1 fire department in the
country at the time serving a town of 7,500, and a county of 16,000.
They were the 25th ISO Class 1 fire department in 1997, as of August
2008 there are 57. This department is one of three ISO Class 1 fire
departments in the state of Nevada--the other two are the Las Vegas Fire
Department, and the Clark County Fire Department.
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Churchill county is spread out over 250 of
the 5,000 square miles of barren desert. The rural areas of Churchill County were awarded the first ISO Class 3 out of only two ever given to departments without a water system.
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