The Bureau of Fire Prevention works to help create a fire-safe community by reducing the probability of loss of life, personal injury, and damage to property caused by fire, natural disaster, or hazardous materials release at occupancies and special events. Our team is also responsible for enforcing the California Fire Code, local amendments, adopted standards, and policies. We achieve this through:

• Education and awareness
• Comprehensive construction plan reviews
• Construction inspections
• Fire safety and hazardous material inspections
• Hazardous materials regulation

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Feedback Survey: We've created a customer services survey to learn how to improve our services related to development services plan review, permit intake/issuance, and construction inspections. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey.
• Dashboards: To increase the transparency of our inspection process and excellent customer service, SJFD presents the new Bureau of Fire Prevention Dashboards.
• Fire SJePlans Update: We have streamlined our intake process to now accept multi-page plan sheets as a single PDF. This update simplifies the submittal process and saves valuable time for both contractors and plan reviewers.
• File Naming Requirements: Our file naming requirements have been updated to align with associated architectural projects. Please refer to the new file naming requirement document for details.
• New Stamp: A new stamp will be applied to indicate approved plans. Applicants must leave a 3-inch x 4-inch square completely blank, 4.5-inches inside and 1-inch from top-right corner of each plan sheet, for the new approval stamp.

The San José Fire Department Bureau of Fire Prevention oversees the regulatory component of fire and hazardous materials codes, investigates fire cause, and educates the community to reduce injuries, loss of life, and property damage from fires and other accidents.