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• Commercial Tenant Improvements

Building Guidlines

• Home Builder Information
• No Parking Fire Lane Guidelines
• Turnaround CulDeSac Diagram
• Turnaround Hammerhead Diagram

• Existing Buildings
• Buildings Under Construction
• Fire Sprinkler Systems
• Citizen Complaints
• Permits/Special Events:
  Tents
  Burning
  Tank Installation and/or Removal
  Christmas Tree Lots
  Carnivals
  Fee Schedule

Fire Alarm Guidlines

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Ordinance Information 

California Fire Code, 2007 Edition, With Certain Amendments, Additions, and Deletions

California Urban-Wildland Interface Code, 2006 Edition With Certain Amendments, Additions, and Deletions

08-08-2006 Newly released Ordinance:

For a complete copy of the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District Ordinance No. 2006-01 , click here:  SMG ORDINANCE 2006-01

For a complete copy of the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District Ordinance No. 2002-02, click here:  SMG ORDINANCE 2002-02

Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems - for more valuable information, please contact the following organizations by clicking their links below:

   National Fire Sprinkler Association

   The Fire Sprinkler Network

Clearance of Brush/Vegetation Growth From Structures -

1.                  Trash, rubbish, debris and other combustible materials which create a fire hazard must be removed from the property and properly disposed of.

2.                  Maintain an effective fuel modification zone by removing and clearing away flammable vegetation and combustible growth from areas within one hundred feet (100') measured on a horizontal plane.

Fire Safety Message 

By now, every student and parent should have heard one or all of the following fire safety messages:  

• “Change your clock, change your battery” aimed at having everyone install fresh batteries and testing their smoke alarms each year.
• Practice E.D.I.T.H. or  “Exit Drills In The Home.”  This encourages each family to plan and practice escape routes in the event of fire…know two ways out.
• “Stop, Drop and Roll” is taught to youngsters to reduce burn injuries if their clothing catches on fire.  (Of course, we have always discouraged playing with matches as well.)
• Call 9-1-1 in the event of an emergency, DO NOT call 9-1-1 for information or to ask questions.
• Protect your home from wildfire with brush clearing or reduction, adequate access, non-combustible roofs and siding, dual pane, non-vinyl, windows.

There are several great websites that you may go to that are educational and fun for the kids. Encourage them to scroll through the pages. In fact, scroll through yourself. One of these sites, www.firewise.org, has a self-test you can give yourself plus great tips on wildfire safety steps you can take.

Another, www.firesafehome.org, discusses smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, hotel and residential fire safety, fire sprinkler systems and more. 

Several, www.firesprinkler.org and www.nfsa.org, discuss residential fire sprinklers and address the misconceptions that people have about them.

Each if these pages has links to other useful sites. Please, take the time to look through them and encourage your family to do the same. For students, you will find some very good information for school reports and term papers. 

Finally, the most important tool we have in fire prevention is YOU. Be fire safe.  

For a comprehensive Home Fire Prevention Checklist, please visit the following sites:

Residential Fire Safety Institute

Firewise Council