The Savannah Fire Department in Savannah, Georgia has received Accredited Agency status for the third time with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI),on August 20, 2026, for meeting the criteria established through the CFAI’s voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program. The Savannah Fire Department is one of more than 300 agencies to achieve Internationally Accredited agency status with the CFAI and the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Inc. (CPSE)

Savannah Fire Department is 1 of 127 agencies in the United States that are both Insurance Service Office (ISO) Class 1 and Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI). Additionally, Savannah Fire Department is 1 of 4 agencies in the State of Georgia that are both Insurance Service Office (ISO) Class 1 and Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI).

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 Derik Minard stated that the agency’s achievement of Accredited Agency status, “demonstrates the commitment of the agency to provide the highest quality of service to our community.” Fire Chief Derik Minard also said, “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 this agency and locate areas where we can improve on the quality of the services we provided.” Savannah Fire has instituted the continuous improvement model in every aspect of the organization and can be seen by its vision statement “We are committed to setting the standard for fire service excellence.”

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