Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OTTUMWA — Four members of the Ottumwa City Council voted against the second reading of a fire inspection ordinance during the ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...

The primary responsibility of any fire prevention official is to enforce the fire codes adopted by their respective jurisdiction. The common highest goal in any fire prevention effort is providing ...

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign is currently the only community in the Big Ten that doesn't have some sort of systematic fire code inspection program for apartment buildings. That could change under a proposal ...

"Looking at different functions of the city; one of our functions is making sure our businesses and our commercial units ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The time for fire code inspections are long overdue. For the past year and a half, the Spokane Fire Department (SFD) has been revamping their fire inspections to ensure apartments and ...

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. — On Tuesday, Baldwinsville Code Enforcement said there were no problems with the New Legacy Apartments building that was destroyed in a blaze on Jan. 24. Tenants said it took a ...

JANESVILLE--A dispute over a recent fire code inspection at a Janesville business continues to simmer even after fire officials denied that they targeted the owner for his opposition to a new central ...

As we move into June and July, fire marshals will be sitting down to a unique problem: how to begin performing code enforcement activities again after two to three months of COVID-19 forced isolation.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In its most recent fire inspection report from August 2022, Island Pointe Apartments had seven code violations. The violations came three months before a fire tore through the ...

Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein's office got a court order to have Best Deal Tire and Rims on Refugee Road shut down.

La Hacienda Event Center was forced to close by Midland County officials over the weekend following findings of fire code violations by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. But an employee of the venue ...