Menifee Fire Marshal Report August 2019
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
August 1st –August 30th, 2019
September 3, 2019
During the 22 available business days in June the personnel assigned to
the Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal conducted 270 field inspections
and completed 28 individual plan reviews. During this period staff
attended 18 development related meetings, responded to 129 requests
for counter assistance. These do not include responding to multiple
requests for field inspection scheduling for projects in process.
Plan review turn-around time is currently 10 days and inspections are
averaging within 72 hours of requests. Development review of Planning
case applications are in some cases currently 9 days ahead of due
dates.
Revenue collected for plan reviews, inspections and planning
application reviews are as follows:
August 1-2 $3,593.76
August 5-9 $6,822.16
August 12-16 $24,572.44
August 19-23 $8,007.36
August 26-30 $8,772.04
Total Revenue $51,767.76 (August)
** These numbers were provided by Fire permit counter staff and come
from the Acela Permit tracking program utilized for this purpose. Totals
may not reflect any permit fees collected on the 31st end of business
day.
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
August 1st –August 30th, 2019
The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) – Menifee Currently staffs
Riverside County Fire Assistant Fire Marshal, Fire Safety Specialist
(Vacant), Fire Systems Inspector, Fire Permit Technician and an Office
Specialist II. Currently the office is conducting inspections, planning
cases, DRC, meetings and plan reviews of Residential and Commercial
projects.
Office of the Fire Marshal (Menifee) is continuing to see an increase in
inspections for both residential and commercial projects. Our fire
inspector has been busy with various types of inspections including, fire
sprinklers for both residential and commercial, fire alarms, hood and
duct inspections and under fire lines and water supply inspections.
Our plan Reviews have included Champion Self Storage, Fairfield Inn &
Suites, Krikorian Shell Building –Pad 3, Atria sprinkler renovation,
Rancho Family Medical Group and Well Quest Living. We are also
reviewing residential additions, second units and accessory dwellings.
New Fairfield Inn & Suites Hotel recently had an inspection to tie into
EMWD water to have a live fire supply of water to on site. Artesa
community is now tied into a permeant water source and has recently
removed all above ground temporary water. The 32 apartment complex
now has live fire hydrants and is moving forward on the next phasing of
apartments to build. Atria Senior Living has started major tenant
improvements to the existing facility and include the replacement of a
new entire fire sprinkler system that had previously numerous pinhole
leaks to the old and outdated system.
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
August 1st –August 30th, 2019
Rancho Family Medical Group is currently making progress of a large
Tenant Improvement project. New fire sprinklers have installed in an
older building and are working on installing the underground system to
feed the new sprinkler system.
We have recently seen an increase in the amount of request for
residential care facilities and daycare facilities within the city. We are
inspecting and re-inspecting them to ensure compliance and t o grant
Fire clearance to the licensing agencies as requested.
In between inspections, plan reviews, document retention, scheduling,
billing, as well as required reports, Menifee staff has a full workload as
do other divisions in this growing community. Office of the Fire Marshal
is working on an annual inspection program. The annual inspection
program would be geared to inspect all business within the city limits to
sure that fire and life safety requirements are being met. Inspections
should be anticipated to being early next year.
With the high request on inspections the OFM office is Inspection
request are currently around 4 days in advance. Plan review check time
is currently 10 days.
The Fire Marshal services provided locally continue to receive positive
comments on service delivery and assistance to the public and business
community from customers, City staff and the Development
community.
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
August 1st –August 30th, 2019
Respectfully Submitted,
Sonya Bu
Fire Marshal
Riverside County OFM
City of Menifee Office