Board weighs new fire-prevention rules: gas-only permits for smokeless fire pits, food-truck inspections

The Board reviewed proposed updates to Chapter 7, which the fire department described as a modernization of long-outdated fire-prevention rules. The fire marshal explained the draft adds permitting and inspection authority for food trucks (including hood systems), the power to issue corrective orders and revoke permits, and civil and criminal penalties for violations of the fire code. He cited two recent food-truck propane leaks during a July event as the kind of hazard the ordinance would address.