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Promoter and city fire staff clash over vendor inspections at Bacon and Brew festival
Summary
At a June 12 Deltona commission workshop, an events promoter and vendors criticized Deltona's fire inspection process and last‑minute vendor directions that organizers say delayed the Bacon and Brew festival, while fire officials pointed to countywide safety rules and a newly standardized checklist.
Becky Hughes, speaking for Kelly Marks Events, told the City of Deltona commission at a June 12 workshop that last‑minute fire department directions and paperwork disrupted this year’s Bacon and Brew festival and led to vendor complaints and a delayed opening.
Hughes said the event originally was scheduled for Nov. 12, 2022 and was rescheduled after a hurricane. She described a sequence in which an April 17 email from Assistant Fire Chief Sharon Shivers asked food vendors to file a mobile and temporary cooking operations form with an April 19 deadline and that some vendors could not meet the two‑day turnaround: “The request was to wait the day before to call it. He did not. The weather was perfect, and K Marks received a lot of complaints and people wanting refunds.”
The complaint centered on on‑site handling the day of the event. Hughes said fire staff instructed vendor placement and redirected food trucks to a different entrance, which she said caused the festival to open an…
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