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Local storage owner objects to extinguisher rule as city cites fire-code requirement
Summary
A Casper Discount Storage owner told the Mills council he was denied a business license for lacking a fire inspection and says portable-extinguisher requirements would cost his business about $3,000; city staff cited International Fire Code section 906 and said extinguishers must be reachable within 75 feet.
Marv Kristofferson, owner of Casper Discount Storage, told the City of Mills council during public comment that he was refused a business license last year because he lacked a fire inspection and declined to install portable fire extinguishers he says are not required for his drive-up storage units.
“I was refused my business license because I did not have a fire inspection done,” Kristofferson said. He told the council that meeting the requirement would force him to buy roughly 16 extinguishers at a cost he estimated at about $3,000, and that his business “only makes $6,000 a year,” making the expense burdensome and…
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