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The Norristown Fire Department’s Fire Safety Inspection Program is designed to promote a proactive approach to fire safety through prevention. Our career firefighters are also certified fire inspectors. They conduct fire safety inspections with the goal of identifying existing hazards to life and property, and to provide explanations on how to mitigate any fire hazard found. In addition, they also ensure that each property is compliant with the adopted International Fire Code. Fire inspectors also ensure that emergency contact information is up to date, along with any other key information that can be use in the event of an emergency at a specific location.
Business owners and residents can always update emergency contact information by submitting updates to: NFDinfoupdates@Norristown.org. You may also print the Occupancy Information Form, linked below, and mail it to the Norristown Fire Department at 235 E. Airy St., Norristown, PA 19401, or fax it to (610) 275-0687.
Below are the forms relevant within our Fire Inspection Program:
In accordance with Resolution No. 15-146 of 2015, the Fire Department has adopted the following fees for specific items related to the services provided. A detailed list of these fees can be found here:
Fire / Incident Report: $25
Non-Certificate Fire Safety Training for a maximum of 25 students
- For profit organization (45 minutes): $550
- Non-profit organization (45 minutes): $225
Photographs
- Black and White (per print): $10
- Digital (per print): $15
- Digital Photos on Disc (per image or disc): $200
Commercial Fire Inspection
Commercial Units-Low Hazard Occupancy (Ambulatory health care, banks, barbers and beauty shops, retail, etc.)
- 1-2000 square feet: $110
- 2,001-5,000 square feet: $160
- 5,001-10,000, square feet: $210
- 10,001-100,000 square feet: $260
- 100,001 square feet or greater: $310
Commercial Units-Moderate Hazard Occupancy (Manufacturing, bakeries, auto repair, auto body etc.)
- 1-2000 square feet: $150
- 2,001-5,000 square feet: $200
- 5,001-10,000, square feet: $250
- 10,001-100,000 square feet: $320
- 100,001 square feet or greater: $400
Commercial Units-High Hazard Occupancy (Wholesale and retail sales and storage of flammable and combustible liquids, liquid stores and distributors without bulk storage, stationary batteries used for facility emergency power or telecommunication facilities, etc.)
- 1-2000 square feet: $200
- 2,001-5,000 square feet: $250
- 5,001-10,000, square feet: $300
- 10,001-100,000 square feet: $400
- 100,001 square feet or greater: $500
The property owner may be charged an additional fee for the cost of the third-party inspectors, engineers or other professional needed to complete the inspection or re-inspection or plan review.
Fire inspection fees include the cost of two (2) inspections, the initial and one re-inspection. Additional inspections required because of the failure of the work to pass the initial two inspections, shall result in the assessment of $30 for each additional inspection.
Fire Department Operational Permit Fees
- Aerosol Products: $75
- Amusement Buildings: $75
- Aviation Facilities: $75
- Carnivals and Fairs: $75
- Cellulose Nitrate Film: $75
- Combust Dust Producing Operations: $75
- Combustible Fibers: $75
- Compressed Gases: $75
- Covered Mall Buildings: $50 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Cryogenic Fluids: $75
- Cutting and Welding: $75
- Dry Cleaning Plants: $75
- Exhibits and Trade Shows: $50 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Explosives: $1,050
- Fire Hydrants and Valves: $50 plus $2 per device
- Flammable / Combustible Liquids: $50 plus$0.05 per gallon
- Floor Finishing: $75
- Fruit and Crop Ripening: $75
- Fumigation/ Thermal Insect Fogging: $75
- Hazardous Materials: $100 plus$0.05 per square foot
- HPM Facilities: $100 plus$0.05 per square foot
- High Piled Storage: $50 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Hot Work Operations: $75
- Industrial Ovens: $75
- Lumber Yards/ Wood Work Plants: $100 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Liquid/ Gas Fueled Vehicles/ Equipment in Building: $75
- LP Gas: $75
- Magnesium: $75
- Miscellaneous Combust Storage: $75
- Open Burning: $75
- Open Flames and Torches: $75
- Open Flames and Candles: $75
- Organic Coatings: $75
- Places of Assembly (Churches Exempt): $75
- Private Fire Hydrants: $250
- Pyrotechnic Special Effects Material: $2,000
- Proxylin Plastics: $75
- Refrigeration Equipment: $75
- Repair Garages/ Motor Fuel: $75
- Rooftop Heliports: $600
- Spraying and Dipping: $325
- Storage Scrap Tires and Tire Byproduct: $500 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Temp Membrane, Tents and Canopies: $125
- Tire Rebuilding Plants: $500 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Waste Handling: $1,000 plus $0.05 per square foot
- Wood Products: $1,000 plus $0.05 per square foot
Fire Department Emergency Response Fees
a. Apparatus
- Engine (per hour): $350
- Aerial Ladder/Quint (per hour): $400
- Rescue/Marine Unit (per hour): $300
- Utility/Support Unit (per hour): $150
- Chiefs/Command Vehicle (per hour): $150
b. Personnel
- Career Fire Personnel (each employee) (per hour): $40
c. Equipment
- Self-Contained Breathing apparatus (SCBA) (each): $50
- Multi Gas Meter (per use): $50
- Fire Extinguisher (any class) (per use): $50
- Hose (Per 50-feet’): $25
- Fire Police Services (per hour): $100
- Road Closing/Traffic Control (per hour): $100
- Flares (each): $8
- Hand Tools (each): $15
- Hydraulic Rescue Tools (each): $200
- Scene Lighting (per hour): $75
- Oil Booms (each): $20
- Oil Absorbent Pads (each): $10
- Oil Dry (per bucket/bag): $35
- Portable Pumps (per hour): $30
- Power Tools (each): $50
- Salvage Covers (each): $35
- Debris Cleanup / Removal: $250
- Ventilation Fans (each): $50
- Thermal Imaging Camera (each): $100
- Foam (gallon): $60
- Cribbing passenger vehicle (each): $100
- Cribbing Class B vehicle (each): $200
- Cribbing Trucks - Class A vehicle (each): $500
- Stabilization Struts (per use): $50
- Latex Gloves (per pair): $2
- Portable Ladders (per use): $35
- Medical Extrication(w/ Hydraulics Rescue Tools (per patient): $1,500
- Generator (per hour): $50
- Hand lights (per use): $5
- Wetting agent (per unit): $25
- Fire Line Tape (per foot): $0.25
Workplace Fire Safety can be conducted by the Norristown Fire Department. If interested, please contact the Deputy Chief / Fire Marshal at (610) 270-2894.
Fees associated with Fire Safety Training are as follows:
- $550.00 - 45 minute presentation for profit companies
- $225.00 - 45 minute presentation for non-profit organizations
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