The Lexington Fire Department is seeking national accreditation with the Center for Public Safety Excellence and the Commission for Fire Accreditation International. Fire Chief Jason Wells spelled out the process earlier this week before the Lexington Council’s Social Services and Public Safety Committee. He said one objective is to lower fire response time in urban and rural areas.
“Our goal is to reduce all of those times by 90 seconds. And we think we can accomplish that through improvements in dispatch technologies, station alerting, and improved routing and mapping. And then we’ll have to look at where are the gaps and do we need to add any additional resources,” said Wells.
