Scott Little
Fire chief and emergency-management leader with federal, state, and local command, incident operations, training, hazardous-materials, and technical-rescue experience.
Fire & EMS Consulting
Your Mission Is Our Mission.
Experienced fire-service professionals helping departments strengthen operations, support personnel, prepare for what’s next, and serve their communities with confidence.
Talk With Our Fire TeamFire Service, Understood
Advice Has to Work Beyond the Conference Room.
Fire and EMS organizations operate under unique demands: high consequence, limited resources, evolving standards, and constant community expectations. Our work respects the culture and the realities of the service while helping departments build stronger systems for the future.
We do not arrive with a generic public-safety template. We listen, learn the department, and build alongside the people who will carry the work forward.
Fire & EMS Services
From Daily Operations to Long-Range Readiness.
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Policy & Procedure Development
Clear, current guidance for operations, administration, safety, personnel, and compliance, built around your department.
Explore This Capability 02CFAI Accreditation Readiness
Fire-service support aligned to the CPSE and CFAI self-assessment and accreditation process.
Explore This Capability 03Community Risk Assessment / Standards of Cover
Community risk, deployment, response performance, resource demand, and service-level analysis translated into defensible decisions.
Explore This Capability 04Organizational Review
Independent insight into structure, staffing, workload, culture, leadership, and opportunities to strengthen performance.
Explore This Capability 05Executive Search & Promotional Testing
Professional processes for fire chiefs, command officers, supervisors, and other critical leadership roles.
Explore This Capability 06Training & Leadership
Practical development for firefighters, company officers, chief officers, EMS leaders, and municipal decision-makers.
Explore This CapabilityWho Leads the Work
Fire-Service Experience Is Built Into the Team.
Project teams are matched to the need and can bring command, accreditation, emergency management, special-operations, risk, policy, training, and organizational experience to the table.
Devon Richio
Battalion chief and special-operations leader with experience in hazardous materials, homeland security, CBRN readiness, UAS programs, incident command, and CPSE peer review.
Shayna Hurst
Risk Management Officer and Accreditation Manager for Overland Park Fire Department, where she led reaccreditation and authored a comprehensive Standards of Cover. Her background spans accreditation, GIS, analytics, emergency management, policy, and organizational risk.
Right-Sized for the Scope
Additional specialists are brought into the work based on accreditation, CRA/SOC, policy, operations, leadership, or selection needs.
Fire Service Accreditation
CFAI Readiness, Grounded in Fire and Emergency Service Operations.
Fire department accreditation is administered through the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, a commission of the Center for Public Safety Excellence. It is not a law-enforcement accreditation process.
Our fire team can help departments organize the self-assessment work, align documentation and evidence to the Fire and Emergency Services Self-Assessment Model, prepare for peer review, and build a maintenance process that supports continuous improvement.
- CPSE and CFAI Process Readiness
- FESSAM Self-Assessment Organization
- Evidence and Documentation Review
- Peer-Assessment Preparation
- Long-Term Accreditation Maintenance
Community Risk and Deployment
Community Risk Assessment / Standards of Cover.
A useful CRA/SOC connects community risk, service demand, deployment, response performance, and available resources to decisions leaders can explain and sustain.
Our fire team helps departments organize the operational picture, examine current conditions, and translate the findings into a practical path for service delivery and long-range planning.
- Community Risk and Service-Demand Analysis
- Response-Time and Deployment Review
- Resource and Coverage Evaluation
- Defensible Service-Level Recommendations
- Implementation Priorities and Roadmap
What Stronger Looks Like
Clearer Decisions.
Better Alignment.
Lasting Systems.
- Policies Personnel Understand and Can Apply
- Resources Aligned With Community Risk and Service Demand
- Standards Embedded Into Daily Practice
- Leaders Equipped to Communicate and Implement Change
- A Roadmap That Is Realistic, Prioritized, and Defensible
“The best plan is not the one with the most pages. It is the one your people can understand, your leaders can sustain, and your community can trust.”Start With a Conversation
Let's Get to Work
Let’s Strengthen What Supports the Response.
Whether you are facing accreditation, growth, staffing pressure, leadership transition, or an operational challenge, our fire and EMS team is ready to help.