Bloomfield Fire Department is Awarded International Accredited Status

The Bloomfield Fire Department in Bloomfield, New Jersey has received Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) for meeting the criteria established through the CFAI’s voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program.  The Bloomfield Fire Department is one of only 300 agencies to achieve Internationally Accredited agency status with the CFAI and the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Inc. (CPSE)

CFAI is dedicated to assisting the fire and emergency service agencies throughout the world in achieving excellence through self-assessment and accreditation to provide continuous quality improvement and the enhancement of service delivery to their communities. The CFAI process 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 verify and validate their completed self-assessment.

Fire Chief Louis Venezia stated that the agency’s achievement of Accredited Agency status “demonstrates the commitment of our department to provide the highest quality of service to our community. We have also been able to use the Commission on Fire Accreditation International’s process as a proactive mechanism to plan for the future of our department and locate areas where we can improve on the quality of the services we provide.”