(A) Notification shall be initiated to the City Manager by the property owner for a request to use a structure for live burn training.
(B) A chief fire officer and the Fire Marshal shall go to the structure and determine if it would provide good, quality training.
(C) At this inspection, factors such as proximity to other homes, water supply, traffic consideration, power line consideration and collapse zones shall be determined.
(D) If the structure is determined suitable to provide quality training the property owner, before a notary public, shall sign an approved authorized city Fire Department release and indemnity agreement relinquishing the city’s Fire Department, the city and its insurers from any and all liability and responsibility associated with the burn.
(E) There shall be an asbestos inspection performed with all proper documentation attached.
(F) Before the live burn, the requirement of a ten-day notification to the state’s Health Hazards Control Branch in Raleigh shall be made. In addition, the 48-hour notification to Air Quality in Washington, North Carolina, shall be performed.
(G) Seven days prior to the burn, a public service announcement shall be advertised in local print media, notifying residents of the date of the live fire burn and any traffic considerations.
(H) Other requirements to be performed within the residential neighborhood shall be the placement of door hangers on nearby homes 48 hours prior to the burn and door to door/face to face notification on the day of the fire within a one-block radius of the training site.
(I) As a usual practice and to avoid interference with outside activities, live fire burn training shall not be conducted in residential neighborhoods between the months of May through September, without prior City Council approval.
(J) The property owner shall be responsible for clearing the lot of all debris within ten days after receiving notification that the training has been completed. If the landowner fails to comply with this requirement, the city shall do the same and all costs incurred relative to the cleanup shall be assessed to the landowner and the property, as with tax liens, all by law provided.
(K) Preference shall be afforded to requests to burn governmental and institutional structures.
(L) Upon the completion of all requirements, each request shall first be approved by City Council prior to the performance of the burn.
(2005 Code, § 34-29) (Ord. passed 5-1-2000)