[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Prescott
as Secs. 5-2-3 to 5-2-10, 5-3-4 and 5-3-5 of the former City Code.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall impede the progress of a fire engine, fire truck
or other fire apparatus of the Prescott Fire Department along the
streets or alleys of such City at the time of a fire or when the Fire
Department of the City is using such streets or alleys in response
to a fire alarm or for practice.
A.
Police authority at fires.
(1)
The Fire Chief and assistants or officers in command at any fire
are hereby vested with full and complete police authority at an emergency
scene. Any officer of the Department may cause the arrest of any person
failing to give the right-of-way to the Fire Department in responding
to an emergency scene.
(2)
The Fire Chief or designee may prescribe certain limits in the vicinity
of any fire within which no persons, excepting firefighters and police
officers and those admitted by order of any officer of the Department,
shall be permitted to come.
(3)
The Chief or designee shall have the power to cause the removal of
any property whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation
of such property from fire or to prevent the spreading of fire or
to protect the adjoining property, and during the progress of any
fire he/she shall have the power to cause the removal of all wires
or other facilities and the turning off of all electricity or other
services where the same impedes the work of the Department during
the progress of a fire.
B.
Fire inspection duties.
(1)
The Fire Chief shall be the Fire Inspector of the City of Prescott
and shall have the power to appoint one or more deputy Fire Inspectors
and shall perform all duties required of the Fire Inspectors by the
laws of the state and rules of the Department of Safety and Professional
Services, particularly § 101.14, Wis. Stats.
(2)
While acting as Fire Inspector pursuant to § 101.14(2),
Wis. Stats., the Fire Chief, or any officer of the Fire Department
designated by the Fire Chief, shall have the right and authority to
enter any building or upon any premises in the City of Prescott at
all reasonable hours for the purpose of making inspections or investigations
which, under the provisions of this Code of Ordinances, he/she may
deem necessary. Should the Fire Inspector find that any provisions
of this Code relating to fire hazards and prevention of fires are
being violated, or that a fire hazard exists which should be eliminated,
it shall be his/her duty to give such directions for the abatement
of such conditions as he/she shall deem necessary.
(3)
The Chief of the Fire Department is required, by himself or by officers
or members of the Fire Department designated by him as fire inspectors,
to inspect all buildings, premises and public thoroughfares, except
the interiors of private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining
and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to cause fire, or
any violations of any law or ordinance relating to the fire hazard
or to the prevention of fires. Such inspections shall be made at least
annually in all of the territory served by the Fire Department and
more often as the Chief of the Fire Department orders. Repairs or
alterations necessary to remove the hazardous condition shall be made
within a reasonable time at the expense of the owner. The Inspector
shall also investigate the storage and handling of explosives and
inflammable liquids within the City.
(4)
Written reports of inspections shall be made and kept on file in
the office of the Chief of the Fire Department in the manner and form
required by the Department of Safety and Professional Services. A
copy of such reports shall be filed with the Fire Chief.
A.
Driving over fire hose. No person shall willfully injure in any manner
any hose, hydrant or fire apparatus belonging to the City or Department,
and no vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the Fire
Department when laid down on any street, private driveway or other
place, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent
of the Fire Department official in command.
B.
Parking vehicles near hydrants. It shall be unlawful for any person
to park any vehicle or leave any object within 10 feet of any fire
hydrant at any time.
C.
No parking near fire. It shall be unlawful for any person, in case
of fire, to drive or park any vehicle within one block from the place
of fire without the consent and authority of the Fire Chief or designee
or any police officer.
A.
Entering adjacent property. It shall be lawful for any firefighter,
while acting under the direction of the Fire Chief or designee or
any other officer in command, to enter upon the premises adjacent
to or in the vicinity of a building or other property then on fire
for the purpose of extinguishing such fire and in case any person
shall hinder, resist or obstruct any fireman in the discharge of his
duty as is hereinbefore provided, the person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of resisting firemen in the discharge of their duty.
B.
Destruction of property to prevent the spread of fire. During the
progress of any fire, the Fire Chief or his designee shall have the
power to order the removal or destruction of any property necessary
to prevent the further spread of fire, provided that it is inevitable
that unless such property is removed other property is in danger of
being destroyed by fire.
Every person who shall be present at a fire shall be subject
to the orders of the Fire Chief or officer in command and may be required
to render assistance in fighting the fire or in removing or guarding
property. Such officer shall have the power to cause the arrest of
any person or persons refusing to obey said orders.
Whenever there shall be a fire or fire alarm or the Fire Department
shall be out for practice, every person driving or riding in a motorized
or other vehicle shall move and remain to the side of the street until
the fire engine and fire truck and other fire apparatus shall have
passed.
No person shall occupy any portion of such streets or alleys
with a motorized or other vehicle between such fire engine or fire
truck or other fire apparatus or any hydrant to which a fire hose
may be, or may be about to be, attached.
[Amended 5-29-2012 by Ord. No. 08-12; 6-23-2014 by Ord. No. 07-14; 3-22-2021 by Ord. No. 02-21]
A.
Waste and refuse defined. "Waste and refuse" shall mean all rubbish,
garbage and residual matter of any kind, including grass trimmings,
leaves and pine needles.
B.
Recreational burning.
(1)
The fire pit cannot be more than three feet in diameter.
(2)
The fire must be contained in a pit, ring or commercial pit.
(3)
The flame cannot be more than three feet high.
(4)
The fire must be at least 15 feet from any structure unless in a
solid, gas or liquid burning appliance that is tested and listed by
an accepted testing agency. The appliance must be installed and used
per the manufacturer specifications and listings.
(5)
No rubbish, yard waste or treated wood is allowed in the fire pit;
only clean, dry wood may be burned.
(6)
There shall be no recreational burning in a manufactured and mobile
home community.
(7)
Fires must be supervised at all time by a person 16+ years old until
extinguished.
(8)
Means
to extinguish fire must be readily available, e.g., garden hose, water-filled
containers.
The following orders, rules, and regulations of the Department
of Safety and Professional Services, all of which are set forth in
the Wisconsin Administrative Code as from time to time amended and/or
renumbered, are incorporated herein by reference and adopted as part
of this chapter:
A.
Chapter SPS 307, Explosives and Fireworks.
B.
Chapter SPS 310, Flammable, Combustible and Hazardous Liquids.
C.
Chapter SPS 314, Fire Prevention.
D.
Chapter SPS 332, Public Employee Safety and Health.
E.
Chapter SPS 340, Gas Systems.
F.
Chapter SPS 343, Anhydrous Ammonia.
G.
Chapters SPS 361 to 366, Wisconsin Commercial Building Code.
H.
Chapters SPS 375 to 379, Buildings Constructed Prior to 1914.
I.
The Wisconsin Electrical Code, Volume 2.
[Amended 9-9-2019 by Ord. No. 05-19]
The City of Prescott hereby adopts NFPA standards and revisions
as amended from time to time, all of which are set forth in the Wisconsin
Administrative Code.
