Fire Watch Regulatory Knowledge Base
The fire code that governs your building, written for the person who has to answer for it.
One volume per jurisdiction. Each one separates the city code from the county code, the fire department from the state fire marshal, and the fire watch an authority having jurisdiction may order from the patrol a vendor sells. Every claim is tied to a published document a reader can open.
Published volumes
The regulatory library
Complete editions are free. The two-page field brief on each volume is open to anyone, without an email address.
Volume 04 · Charlotte, NC
Charlotte Fire Watch & Hot Work Regulations
Charlotte publishes an unusually specific fire-watch procedure: no fewer than two qualified individuals, a trained building representative at the alarm panel, and documented hourly patrols of every unprotected area. This volume reads that procedure against North Carolina's adopted code, the boundary between Charlotte Fire Department and Mecklenburg County jurisdiction, the hot-work standards and the restoration process, and separates what the official record establishes from what circulates in vendor proposals.
Volume 01 · Dallas, TX
Dallas Fire Watch & Hot Work Regulations
Dallas is not one fire jurisdiction. A city address, an unincorporated parcel and county-owned property can each answer to a different adopted code and a different enforcement pathway. This volume sets the two apart, then works through what an impairment or a hot-work operation actually requires: notification, temporary protection, qualified standby personnel, patrol design, documentation and restoration.
Volume 02 · Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Fire Watch & Hot Work Regulations
Jacksonville and Duval County are consolidated in large part, yet Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Baldwin keep their own municipal identity, and the fire official who governs a given address follows that geography rather than a postal code. This volume sets out the statewide Florida Fire Prevention Code, the local Chapter 420 ordinance and the federal hot-work rules, then works through impairment notification, temporary protection, patrol design, competency, documentation and formal release. It also separates code triggers from safe-harbour assumptions, including the four-hour and ten-hour figures and the patrol and retention rules that circulate without an official source.
Volume 03 · Miami, FL
Miami Fire Watch & Hot Work Regulations
A Miami building can carry three layers of fire authority at once: the statewide Florida Fire Prevention Code, Miami-Dade County's unusually broad Chapter 14, and the City of Miami's Chapter 19 where the parcel sits inside the city. This volume reads those layers against each other, works through the county standby provision and the 2026 amendment history, and sets out what an impairment watch and a hot-work operation actually require in Miami-Dade.
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