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What is a Fire Inspection? The City's Fire Inspectors are responsible for inspecting existing businesses and properties for fire code violations and to ensure businesses follow safe handling, use, and storage practices for hazardous materials per the California Fire Code and other State laws. Inspectors ensure that fire and life safety systems, such as fire...

What is a Residential Permit? A residential permit is approval from the City to start a construction project on a residence, e.g., a single-family home. When do I need one? Common reasons you'll need a residential permit include: Construction or renovation project (may need multiple permits) Dry rot repair Re-roof project Fence Deck if more...

When you build infrastructure on behalf of the City, you need to follow our standards. We have provided them on this page for your reference.

The Petaluma Fire Department provides manipulative training and classroom education for all department personnel. Training is conducted by developing, assigning, delivering, and evaluating all aspects of manipulative skills and classroom education. Monthly Training The training division issues a quarterly training schedule to all companies (aka, units within the fire suppression division). The training schedule allows...

Disasters may strike quickly and without warning. These events can be frightening for adults, but they are traumatic for children if they don’t know what to do. During a disaster, your family may have to leave your home and daily routine. Children may become anxious, confused or frightened. As an adult, you’ll need to cope...

Wherever you live or travel, you should be aware of the dangers of a winter storm and be prepared to cope with one. You can rest a little easier knowing that you know what to do (and not to do) before the storm, when you receive a storm warning, during the storm, and after the storm....

You can survive an earthquake and minimize its damage simply by becoming aware of potential hazards and taking some basic earthquake preparedness measures. The fact is that movement of the ground is seldom the actual cause of death or injury. Most casualties result from partial building collapse, falling objects and debris, such as toppling bookcases,...