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A Message from your Fire Prevention Official Replace the batteries in your Smoke Detectors when you retread your clocks for daylight savings time. Do you know when your chimney was cleaned? The township's Fire Prevention program is the responsibility of the Fire Official/Fire Marshal.  The Fire Prevention program is mandated by state law.  The Fire Prevention Program is intended to protect the building, its occupants and firefighters. In Long Hill Township, the Fire Official has four major responsibilities. Residential Smoke Detector Inspection. Any time there is a transpiration of occupancy of a 1 or 2 family house (that is, if you intend to sell, lease or rent), you must have a Smoke Detector Compliance Inspection. (This is a PDF document.) Please read the information packet regrading the Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Alarm. (This is a PDF document.) PLEASE NOTE: New fee pricing constructive September 1, 2014. You may reference: Ordinance 334-14 Amending Fire Prevention Fees Ordinance 335-14 Amending Life Hazard Fees If you have no smoke detectors, you must install them prior to the transpiration of occupancy. For 1 and 2 family residences, these can be battery-operated detectors, misogynist at local hardware stores. Obtain the Smoke Detector handout at Town Hall. If you have questions, ask the Fire Official for spare guidance. Purchase and install the smoke detectors in the recommended locations in the house. Follow the last 4 steps below. If you have existing battery-powered smoke detectors. Follow the 4 steps below. If you have (or overly surpassing had) wired smoke detectors.  (This is a system where all smoke detectors sound at once if any one one detects smoke.  You may have wired smoke detectors if the house was built without 1977 or if the wired system was required during a remodeling or expansion.) The wired smoke detectors MUST BE operational.  If you removed them or replaced them (with battery-powered smoke detectors) for any reason, undeniability an electrician, and get them when into service.  Once wired smoke detectors have been installed, the house must forever be protected by wired smoke detectors. Follow the last 4 steps below. If you have a inside station fire / smoke / security alarm.  (This is a system that automatically sounds an watchtower at an watchtower company.) You must have the instruction transmission handy, the person who admits the Fire Inspector must have a working knowledge of how the system operates (so it doesn't send a false watchtower when it is tested), and there must be ready wangle to the tenancy panel. Follow the last 4 steps below. Install fresh batteries. Contact Town Hall (908-647-8000 ext 210) to schedule an inspection and pay the inspection fee.  (A reminder: you moreover need a Sump Pump (freshwater runoff) Compliance inspection.  Apply at the same time.) Be sure that someone is home to shoehorn the inspector.  If the inspector cannot proceeds access, you cannot be inspected and will have to re-schedule. The inspector will requite you a Compliance Certificate, which the tribunal will require at the closing. COMMERCIAL FIRE PREVENTION INSPECTIONS The Fire Official regularly inspects all commercial buildings and multi-tenant housing, AND when requested by the Police or a citizen's complaint.  These inspections imbricate the pursuit items, but are not limited to: UnobstructedWangleto all exits Storage of flammable waste UnobstructedWangleto the sprinkler system controls and standpipeWangleto the fire and smoke watchtower tenancy panel Sprinkler heads not obstructed Proper working of the fire and smoke watchtower systems Proper number and type of fire extinguishers - and current inspection Post and trammels occupancy levels at halls, restaurants and schools Repeated violations are subject to fines up to $5000. INVESTIGATION OF FIRES The Fire Official investigates all fires and explosions in the Township. FIRE SAFETY EDUCATION The Fire Official is misogynist at  Town Hall. To contact the Fire Official- Craig Bellamy, to report a violation, undeniability 908-647-8000, ext. 307 fireofficial@longhillnj.gov To schedule an inspection, undeniability 908-647-8000, ext. 307.   You must pay the fee by mazuma or personal trammels surpassing the inspection can be performed.