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Palm Beach County Fire Rescue outlines food-truck inspection rules after national incidents; gives quarterly response-time data
Summary
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue presented a food-truck safety and inspection program citing past propane/gas explosions and describing required exhaust, suppression, leak detection and spacing rules; the department also presented quarterly response metrics for Wellington.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue staff briefed the Village of Wellington Public Safety Committee on June 11 about a county food-truck inspection program developed after fatal and serious food-truck fires, and provided quarterly emergency-response statistics for the village.
Assistant Fire Marshal Chris Henry described several past incidents nationwide and locally that prompted a formal inspection program, including a Philadelphia explosion tied to a decades-old, uninspected propane tank and recent Florida incidents. Henry said the county requires an exhaust system for any food truck that produces smoke, automatic suppression for…
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