Annual Fire Inspection Program

Fire Inspection Program

The Fire Prevention Bureau is responsible for conducting fire and life safety inspections of new building construction, building tenant improvements or remodels, fire sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, and special protection systems for compliance with the California Fire Code as amended by the West Covina Municipal Code.

Additional inspections conducted include (but are not limited to):

• Hotels, motels, apartments, churches, schools, public assembly occupancies, day care facilities, health care facilities, mid-rise and high-rise buildings
• Businesses (some are periodically inspected by Fire Suppression personnel)
• Special events, production facilities, and filming locations
• Businesses with hazardous materials and underground or aboveground storage tanks
• Brush hazard/weed abatement

To protect the community, the West Covina Fire Department conducts fire and life safety inspections of commercial properties and multi-family dwellings. Every city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services is mandated to inspect all structures within its jurisdiction, except single-family dwellings, for compliance with building standards and other regulations of the State Fire Marshal, in accordance with the California Health and Safety Code Section 13146.2(a).

After an inspection has been performed, an invoice is issued.

The West Covina Fire Department utilizes Fire Recovery USA, a private billing company, to issue these inspection invoices and collect payments. If you have any questions about your invoice and payment, please contact Fire Administration at 626-939-8824 or Fire Recovery USA at 888-640-7222.

For questions regarding inspections, please contact the Fire Prevention Bureau at 626-939-8824.

Brycer - The Compliance Engine

The Compliance Engine is a simple, Internet-based tool for Fire Prevention Bureaus, Water Departments, and Building Departments to track and drive inspection and testing code compliance, reduce false alarm activity, ensure clean drinking water, and provide a safer community.

It provides a secure cloud environment in which third-party contractors that inspect, test, and maintain fire protection systems, backflows, and elevators, submit their reports via BRYCER's web portal directly to the Authority Having Jurisdiction, facilitating a more efficient review, tracking, and follow-up process with occupants to correct deficiencies and maintain systems.

BRYCER also provides proactive services, in addition to the web-based technology, that include: hard and soft copy notifications, call services, analytics, consultation, 24-hour support, and market education to help increase testing and maintenance activity in a given jurisdiction. The end result is a comprehensive and accurate aggregation of data around which buildings have what types of systems when they were last tested, and if there are any open deficiencies that could jeopardize their successful deployment in the event of an incident.

With The Compliance Engine, Code Officials are better equipped to do more with less in their mission to drive 100% compliance with fire protection systems, backflows, and elevators, adopted inspection, testing, and maintenance laws.

For more information on how to submit reports, please view the West Covina Fire Department CA Implements The Compliance Engine (PDF).