Fire Marshal Report (2)
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
September 1st – September 30th, 2019
October 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
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
September 1st – September 30th, 2019
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
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
September 1st – September 30th, 2019
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)