Life Safety
Fire Inspections
Westlake Fire Department operates a comprehensive fire inspection
program. Our Fire Inspectors conduct these inspections, monitor
structures for fire and life safety code violations, and issue
citations when needed for such violations as unauthorized hazardous
materials releases, parking in fire lanes and blocked exits in
buildings.
Our Fire
Inspector is responsible for enforcing all Westlake fire and
life safety codes through inspections of all commercial and
multi-family dwellings in Westlake. These inspections are
conducted routinely by the Fire Department and cover the general
business sector. Virtually all buildings that may have public
allowed into them are inspected for fire safety on a periodic basis.
The purpose is to identify hazardous situations, have them
corrected, and teach the occupants how to avoid poor situations in
the future. This same concept is applied to single-family
residential property, if requested.
Our
Prevention Division, reviews all fire protection and life safety
system drawings and plans to ensure conformance with applicable
Federal, state and local fire and life safety codes, standards and
ordinances.
For more
home fire safety information, check out:
Operation Life Safety This site contains
information for consumers and fire departments about residential
fire sprinklers, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, heat
detectors hotel fire safety and home fire safety. Operation
Life Safety (OLS) is a public interest group that was created in
1982 to promote fire-safe homes through built-in fire protection and
fire-safe behavior. The U.S. has one of the worst records for
residential fire deaths in the industrialized world. Our role is
improve that dubious record.
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