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City of Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department LFR Earns Accreditation & National Recognition | |
On August 25th, 1997 the Commission of Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) granted accredited agency status to five fire departments. Representatives from Lincoln, Nebraska; Tempe, Arizona; Greensboro, North Carolina; Naperville, Illinois, and Los Alamos, New Mexico received the awards at the International Association of Fire Chiefs annual conference in Dallas, Texas. Lincoln Fire Department former Fire Chief Mike Merwick accepted the tribute on behalf of Lincoln citizens and all fire department personnel whom he credited with making accreditation a reality. Chief Merwick stated "It is honor to be one of the first fire departments in the world to achieve this status."
For four years Lincoln Fire & Rescue maintained accredited agency status by completing annual compliance reports. Fire Chief Mike Spadt requested a re-accreditation site inspection by a commission team in June of 2002.
Chief Spadt received the re-accreditation award in August 2002 at the IAFC Rescue International Conference in Kansas City, MO. Lincoln Fire & Rescue is now joined by over 50 other accredited fire departments worldwide.
The Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) is dedicated to assisting the fire and emergency service agencies throughout the world in achieving excellence through self assessment and accreditation in order to provide continuous quality improvement and the enhancement of service delivery to their communities. The CFAI process is voluntary and provides an agency with an improvement model to assess their service delivery and performance internally. The CFAI assessors reviewed the Lincoln Fire Department operations and accreditation exhibits during the inspections. Assessors validated the Self Assessment' documents and other information submitted to the commission by Lincoln Fire & Rescue's request for re-accreditation.
Chief Randy R. Bruegman, CFAI Chairman, stated that "These agencies achievement of accredited agency status demonstrates the commitment of the agency to provide the highest quality of service to their communities". He also stated that "These agencies will be able to use the Commission of Fire Accreditation International's process as a pro-active mechanism to plan for the future of their organization and locate areas where they may improve on the quality of service they provide." The fire service joins other professions which grant accreditation status to agencies demonstrating excellence service to their customers.
For more information please contact the Commission of Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) in Fairfax, Virginia or Fire Chief Mike Spadt/Deputy Chief Dean Staberg at (402) 441-7363 of Lincoln Fire & Rescue.
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