90th CES Fire & Emergency Services accredited

Will Grey, Pueblo, Colo., Fire Department captain; John McDougall, 90th Civil Engineer Squadron fire chief; and Gregory Chesser, 90th CES assistant fire chief, address Commission on Fire Accreditation International commissioners during an accreditation hearing process in Henderson, Nev., March 11, 2014. Grey was lead for a peer team who evaluated the 90th CES Fire and Emergency Services December, 2013. This was a requirement for accreditation. (Courtesy photo)

90th CES Fire & Emergency Services accredited

Published March 25, 2014
By Staff Reports
90th Missile Wing Public Affairs

F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. -- The 90th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire and Emergency Services received Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International for meeting the criteria established through the CFAI's voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program.

F.E. Warren's fire department is one of 150 agencies to achieve Internationally Accredited Agency status with the CFAI and the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Inc. Out of the of the 30,125 registered with the United States Fire Administration, 150 fire departments have the accredited status with the CFAI . The 90th CES fire department is the ninth Air Force fire & emergency services flight to receive this status, the first in Air Force Global Strike Command and the first in Wyoming.

The CFAI assists fire and emergency service agencies throughout the world to help them achieve excellence through self-assessment and accreditation in order to provide continuous quality improvement and enhanced service delivery to their communities.

Accreditation is voluntary and provides an agency with an improvement model to assess their delivery and performance internally. The agency works with a team of peers from other agencies to evaluate their completed self-assessment.

The department completed the self-assessment consisting of 258 different performance criteria in the past three years. Additionally, a four-person peer team visited the department in early December 2013, to validate the documents and data previously presented, as well as confirm performance measures met established industry standards.

The commission convened in Henderson, Nev., March 10 and 11, and agencies recommended for accredited status appeared before the commission to answer questions and defend their respective documents and data. The commission voted unanimously to award F.E. Warren's fire department the status.

"The achievement of Accredited Agency status demonstrates the commitment of our department to provide the highest quality of service to F.E. Warren Air Force Base," said John McDougall, 90th CES fire chief. "I am very proud of our department for this achievement."