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Programs that are responsible for preventing, investigating, controlling and extinguishing fires. Activities include fire safety education, firefighting, investigating the causes of suspicious fires, maintaining equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur, and enforcing fire codes which protect lives and property from fires and explosions arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, or from conditions hazardous to life and property in the use or occupancy of buildings or other premises.

Fire inspections are required for various reasons. These may include but are not limited to: Sale of a business or a property Change of use (change of occupancy) Licensing Complaint or investigation Owners request Tent Nightclub Special Amusements, flame effects, pyrotechnics, and firework Occupancies required to be inspected per RIGL 23-28.5-1 Nightclubs with an occupancy of 150 and greater, places of assembly with an occupancy of 300 and greater and apartment buildings need to comply with fire alarm and sprinkler requirements listed in the Rhode Island State Fire Code. Places of worship as defined in RIGL 23-28.1-5 shall comply with RIGL 23-28.6-24 with amendments RILSC (Add) 13.1.8.1

Programs that are responsible for preventing, investigating, controlling and extinguishing fires. Activities include fire safety education, firefighting, investigating the causes of suspicious fires, maintaining equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur, and enforcing fire codes which protect lives and property from fires and explosions arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, or from conditions hazardous to life and property in the use or occupancy of buildings or other premises.