52 Pa. Code § 69.1501
The coordination and consistent application of safe, adequate and reliable fire protection service offers a tremendous benefit to public safety, emergency fire protection organizations and associated personnel. Safe, reasonable and adequate regulated fire protection service offerings are a matter of utmost concern to the Commission. The policies and recommendations in this policy statement are intended to provide water public utilities with a guideline of the recommended actions and level of public fire protection service and system hydraulic monitoring that the Commission considers reasonable. The Commission may consider a water public utility's effort to meet the recommendations in this policy statement when determining just and reasonable rates for the water public utility.
Fire protection services are often provided by Class A water public utilities. In providing fire protection services, a Class A water public utility should operate with a sophisticated level of technical expertise including the use of modern water industry tools such as computerized hydraulic modeling software.
52 Pa. Code § 69.1501