The primary purpose of a pre-incident plan is to help responding personnel effectively manage emergencies with available resources and should not be confused with fire inspections which monitor code compliance.

If you have an emergency at your location, would emergency responders know the layout of your business and how to handle possible obstacles that come up?  Pre-incident planning makes aware potential life safety hazards, structural size and complexity, value of the structure, importance of the structure to the community, the location of the structure, the location of chemicals on the property, and the property's susceptibility to natural disasters to emergency responders.

A pre-incident plan gives emergency responders and overview of your business which enables them to quickly mitigate hazards in your business when they occur.  The most important function of a pre-incident plan is to already have a plan in place to reduce damage that may occur and lessen the down time of your business which decreases your revenue.

Self-Inspection Forms
Fighting a fire is not the only way to combat fires: an inspection program is a less expensive and more effective way to accomplish the goal of the fire service.  This goal is to minimize the risk of life and property loss from fire.  Self-inspections are an important way to protect your business interests by reducing your fire hazards.

Download a self-inspection form
Here is an easy checklist to ensure that your business is at it's lowest fire risk and is compliant with current fire codes. Click here [doc] [pdf].

Contact Firefighter Peterson at peterson@pcfd1.org for more information.

Pacific County Fire District 1 is able to render your business into a 3-D drawing and a 2-D floor plan to assist in pre-fire planning. Having this information on file enables the Fire District to know exactly how to locate key information specific to your business.