Fire safety plans for Pitt Meadows buildings, drawn with the department’s own symbol set and prepared to its 2025 Fire Safety Plan Guidelines, with the pre-incident program enrolment the department requires before final inspection.

Who needs a fire safety plan in Pitt Meadows

Pitt Meadows Fire & Rescue Service enforces Section 2.8 of the BC Fire Code through the City’s Fire Protection and Life Safety Bylaw No. 2405. The bylaw requires the plan in a form, format and diagram template the Fire Chief accepts, submitted for review, reviewed at least annually and kept on the premises where the Chief directs, and it requires the owner to designate a Fire Safety Director and a deputy. Every building with a fire alarm system, every assembly, care or detention occupancy, every high building and every sprinklered building needs a plan, and a new building must have one in place before final occupancy.

That covers the retail and wood-frame condos of the town centre along Harris Road, the mixed-use buildings and townhouses of Osprey Village, Meadowtown Centre and its big-box retail, the warehouses and distribution buildings of Golden Ears Business Park, the hangars and aviation businesses around the regional airport, and the schools, daycares and places of worship throughout the city.

How Pitt Meadows Fire & Rescue Service reviews a plan

The department publishes its own Fire Safety Plan Guidelines, updated in 2025, a New Building Checklist and a Fire Safety Plan Symbols sheet, and it expects plans to follow them. Drawings must use the Pitt Meadows symbol set. The plan goes in a red 8.5 by 11 binder, 14-point headings and 12-point text, printed single-sided, with the department’s acceptance letter or email kept in the front of the binder. The plan box is the padlock type with a spare lock kept inside, labelled “Fire Safety Plan”.

Pitt Meadows also runs a pre-incident plan program: commercial and public facilities, including farms, must join it as a condition of final inspection approval, and changes to the building’s contacts or systems are reported to the department on its Emergency Dispatch Form, with a separate form for stratas. We complete the enrolment and the form with the plan.

A construction fire safety plan is required under Sections 2.8 and 5.6 of the Code and must be submitted for review before work begins; our construction division at constructionfiresafetyplans.ca prepares those. The New Building Checklist must be completed before final occupancy. Any review fee is confirmed with the department at submission and included in your quote.

The buildings we plan for in Pitt Meadows

Low-rise retail and wood-frame condo apartments in the town centre along Harris Road. Mixed-use low-rise buildings and townhouses in Osprey Village. The shopping centre and big-box retail of Meadowtown Centre, where tenant plans sit on the landlord’s base-building plan. Warehouses, distribution and light industrial buildings in Golden Ears Business Park, where storage, dangerous goods and access drive the plan. Hangars and aviation businesses at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport. Schools, daycares, farms with public facilities and places of worship across the city.

Keeping a Pitt Meadows plan current

Review the plan every year and update it whenever the Fire Safety Director or deputy, property manager, monitoring company or building systems change, and report contact and system changes to the department on its Emergency Dispatch Form. Run the annual drill and keep the records in the plan box.

How it works with FireSafetyPlan.com

1. Firm quote in one business day. One upfront price based on building type and size, with any fire department review fee included.
2. Site visit. We confirm exits, fire alarm panel and annunciator, sprinkler and standpipe connections, shut-offs and the plan box location, and photograph the fire protection systems.
3. Draft in five to seven business days. CAD drawings and the full written plan, sent to you for review before anything is submitted.
4. Submission and approval. We submit to the fire department, handle any revisions they ask for, and deliver the accepted plan in print and PDF, with wall plaques and a plan box if you need them.

Approval is guaranteed. If the fire department sends back a plan we prepared, we revise it at no charge until it is accepted.

Recent Pitt Meadows projects

A couple of the Pitt Meadows buildings we have prepared fire safety plans for, and what made each one different.

• A new childcare centre on Blakely Road: its alarm panel and gas shut-off are in the building next door.
• A 1969 tire and auto repair shop on Harris Road: no alarm and no sprinklers, so the plan sets a hard limit on indoor tire storage.

Frequently asked questions — Pitt Meadows

Do our drawings have to use the Pitt Meadows symbols?

Yes. The department publishes its own symbol sheet and plans drawn with generic symbols are returned. Every Pitt Meadows plan we draw uses the department’s set.

What is the pre-incident plan program?

A department program that records each commercial or public building’s access, systems, hazards and contacts for responding crews. Joining it is a condition of final inspection approval, and changes are reported on the Emergency Dispatch Form. We handle the enrolment with the plan.

Is there a review fee?

Pitt Meadows charges a fee to review a fire safety plan, set in the municipal fee bylaw and changed from time to time. We confirm the current amount at submission and include it in your quote so there are no surprises.

Pitt Meadows fire safety plan quote: (778) 574-2895. We reply within one business day.

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