The Fenton Fire Protection District has received Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI). The district met the criteria established through the CFAI's voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program. The Fenton Fire Protection District is the first fire department in St. Louis County to achieve accreditation, and only the second in the state of Missouri. Nationwide there are only 121 agencies that have received International Agency Accreditation status with the CFAI and the Center for Public Safety Excellence.

The process of accreditation provides the organization and the citizens many benefits including:

• Provides mechanisms to evaluate expenditures that are directly related to improved or expanded service delivery in the community
• Nationally-accepted set of criteria
• Elevates the level of professionalism
• Well-defined measurement tool
• The promotion of excellence within the fire and emergency services
• Encouraging quality improvement through a continuous self assessment process
• Providing a detailed evaluation of a department and the services it provides to the community
• Identifying areas of strength and weakness within a department
• A mechanism for developing strategic and program action plan

The Fenton Fire Protection District has developed standard of response coverage commitments as it relates to fire alarm processing time, tumout time, and travel time. The following standards represent our commitment to our community for fire and emergency medical services.

• The first arriving engine company to an emergency fire call within district will have a travel time to the emergency incident of 5 minutes or less, 80% of the time from en route to on scene time.
• The full first alarm assignment (all five fire trucks) to an emergency fire call within district will have a travel time to the emergency incident of 10 minutes or less, 80% of the time from en route to on scene time.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) care will have a travel time to the scene of an emergency medical call, within district, of 4 minutes or less. 80% of the time from en route to on scene time.
• Advanced Life Support (ALS) care will have a travel time to the scene of an emergency medical call, within district, of 6minutes or less, 80% of the time from en route to on scene time.