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Administration Division

The Administration division administers the day to day activities of the Fire/Rescue Department as it interacts with the public, Town departments, other governmental agencies, and the media. It prepares and administers the annual budget. It reviews and revises current service levels. The Administration Division manages an ongoing training program in order to maintain state firefighter and emergency rescue technician certifications. And lastly, it provides support for the Suppression and Risk Management Divisions, and a Bulk Water Sales Technician.

The agency administration exercises responsibility for the quality of the agency through an organized system of planning, staffing, directing, coordinating, and evaluating. The agency administration is entrusted with the assets and charged to uphold its mission and programs, to ensure compliance with laws and regulations and to provide stability and continuity to the agency.

In February 1996, the Town of Cary Fire / Rescue Department administration began to explore the possibility of initiating a self-assessment for accreditation through the National Fire Service Accreditation Program. The International Association of Fire Chiefs developed the accreditation program to help member departments continue to improve and develop their services. Accreditation focuses on the organization as a whole. It is a process by which a recognized professional association evaluates and recognizes an institution as meeting certain predetermined standards or qualifications. The accreditation program involves an assessment system with a single pass/fail process. In each area addressed by the program, there are specific criteria that must be met. The department has produced an accreditation document that incorporates all the data with supporting narratives. The document was sent for a peer assessment from the Commission on Fire Accreditation. In August of 1999, the Cary Fire/Rescue Department became the second fire department in North Carolina to become nationally accredited. The entire process must be reviewed annually with a peer review every five years.

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