Los Angeles County Fire Extinguisher Service

Every portable extinguisher in a California business needs a yearly service visit and a fresh tag. That part is simple. In Los Angeles County the harder question is which agency will read the tag, because fire prevention here is split between County Fire, the City of Los Angeles and cities that run their own bureaus. 1 Pro Fire does the extinguisher work anywhere in the county: annual service, recharge, hydrostatic testing and new installs. Our Los Angeles County service area page lists the other systems we cover.

To book service or get a quote, call (213) 568-0188 or email socal@1profire.com.

Which fire agency covers your building

Start with your address. The Consolidated Fire Protection District of Los Angeles County (County Fire) serves every unincorporated area plus 60 contract cities, 59 of them inside the county. In that territory, its Fire Prevention Division does annual business inspections through North, Central and East regional units.

The City of Los Angeles is separate. Its fire department, LAFD, handles plan review, permits and new construction inspections inside city limits through its Fire Development Services section. Burbank and some other cities run their own fire prevention bureaus. Not sure? Ask your city's fire marshal which office inspects your building.

Which fire code applies

County Fire territory uses Title 32 of the Los Angeles County Code, the county's amendments to the 2022 California Fire Code, and contract cities such as Santa Clarita adopt it by reference. The City of Los Angeles keeps its own fire code. Confirm the edition with your fire agency. Portable extinguishers fall under Section 906 of the California Fire Code.

Who may do the work, and on what schedule

In California, extinguisher service has to come from a firm and technician licensed by the State Fire Marshal under Title 19. Our California work is performed by Hedrick Fire Protection, which holds that license plus C-16 and C-10 contractor licenses. NFPA 10 sets the calendar:

• Monthly: a staff visual check.
• Every year: maintenance by a certified technician, recorded on the tag.
• Every 6 years: internal maintenance (a teardown) for stored-pressure dry chemical units.
• Every 5 years: hydrostatic testing for CO2, water and wet chemical (Class K) units.
• Every 12 years: dry chemical hydro test.

At the yearly visit the technician checks each unit's pressure, pin and seal, hose and shell, then records the work on its tag. Tags expire every year. Discharged units need a recharge (see our fire extinguisher refill page), the annual extinguisher certification page covers the tag itself, and cylinder pressure tests have their own page on hydrostatic testing in Los Angeles County.

Matching extinguishers to the hazard

New space or more units? Installation starts with what could burn. The classes are A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids), C (energized electrical), D (combustible metals) and K (cooking oils and fats). A storage room full of flammable liquids needs Class B coverage that a plain office never does. Kitchens with a hood suppression system also need a Class K portable unit, and we service those hood systems through our commercial kitchen fire service. Placement follows Section 906 and NFPA 10.

Extinguisher jobs from our case studies

The closest to home is bilingual, fast-turnaround extinguisher service for a La Puente restaurant with an inspection coming up. Events bring their own pressure. We certified extinguishers for a 60-vendor Norco rodeo in one service day and put weatherproof tags on 23 outdoor extinguishers at a Victorville carnival.

We also have extinguisher pages for Carson and Downey.