CFAI Accreditation

Captain Bryon Ellis
Accreditation Manager

Sedgwick County Fire District 1 received it's first Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, Inc. (CFAI) on August 21, 2003 for meeting the criteria established through the CFAI's voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program.

The district’s fifth-annual compliance report to the Commission for Public Safety Excellence was approved in 2008. In May, an Accreditation Site Review Team evaluated the district for four days as part of the five year accreditation period renewal process. The team recommended reaccreditation, and the commission approved this in August 2008 at the Fire/Rescue International conference in Denver, Colorado. This review included 10 categories covering 77 core competencies and more than 250 specific indicators. Sedgwick County Fire District 1 is one of only 121 accredited fire departments worldwide.

The Commission on Fire Accreditation International, Inc. 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 and then works with a team of peers from other agencies to evaluate their completed self-assessment.