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Fire Department Reaccreditation

At a glance

  • What: The Grand Rapids Fire Department's third reaccreditation through the Center for Public Safety Excellence.
  • Where it stands: Reaccredited after peer review and a commission hearing; briefed to the Public Safety Committee on 2026-09-22.
  • Next: Work on the 18 recommendations, about half of which ask for program outcome measures.

Details

  • One of 334 accredited agencies and one of 127 that are both accredited and ISO Class 1, per the Fire Chief.
  • Process included about a thousand pages of documents, an on-site peer visit and a hearing before a 15-member commission.
  • The expanded homeless outreach team hours (to 9:00 PM, and weekends) were cited as a program the peer assessor highlighted.

Sources

  • Public Safety Committee 2026-09-22, YouTube auto-generated captions.

Log

2026-09-22 - Public Safety Committee

  • Briefing received; no vote taken.