Fire Marshal ReportOctober 1, 2019
During the 21 available business days in September the personnel assigned to the Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal conducted 204 field inspections and completed 73 individual plan reviews.
During this period staff attended 13 development related meetings, responded to 128 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
5 days ahead of due dates.
Revenue collected for plan reviews, inspections and planning application reviews are as follows:
September 2-6 $18,445.92
September 9-13 $7,327.84
September 16-20 $6306.64
September 23-27 $8,717.84
September 30th $2462.36
Total Revenue $43,260.60 (September)
** 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.
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 Bush Fire Kitchen, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Mc Donald’s TI and New Justice Center. We are also reviewing residential additions, second units and accessory
dwellings. This past month we have seen numerous State request for residential care facilities and a large Family Daycare.
New Fairfield Inn & Suites Hotel is continuing to have inspections and Fire Sprinkler plans have been submitted and reviewed. Artesa community has continued to move forward quickly
and has had sprinkler and fire alarm wiring inspection on 3 of the units including the club house. The 32 apartment complex 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 fire sprinkler system that previously had numerous pinhole leaks to the old and outdated system.
Rancho Family Medical Group is currently making progress of a large Tenant Improvement project. New fire sprinklers have installed in an older building we had conducted an alarm pre
wire inspection and looking forward to them tying into the underground water to serve the building and sprinkler system.
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 continuing to work 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. In addition, we have now a new Fire module in the cities Acela program
that will help us document Fire related permits and inspections.
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.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sonya Bu
Fire Marshal
Riverside County OFM (Menifee)