Fire Prevention Division

National Fire Protection Agency
Pamphlet 1201
2-1 “The fire department shall have programs, procedures, and organizations for preventing the outbreak of fires in the community and to minimize the danger to persons and damage to property caused by fires that do occur.” 

2-2 “Every fire department shall have a program under which its personnel regularly examine every part of the community where a significant fire problem might develop. Personnel shall inspect real property in the community with an emphasis on those occupancies identified by a risk schedule as subject to a high level of hazard to life and property.”