[Adopted 10-7-1998 by Ord. No. 351 as §§ 5-2-2
through 5-2-8 of the 1998 Code]
No person shall impede the progress of a fire engine, fire truck
or other fire apparatus of the Randolph Fire Department along the
streets or alleys of such Village at the time of a fire or when the
Fire Department of the Village is using such streets or alleys in
response to a fire alarm or for practice.
A.
Police authority at fires.
(1)
The Chief and assistants or officers in command at any fire are hereby
vested with full and complete police authority at fires. 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 a fire.
(2)
The Fire Chief 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 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, or the Chief's designee, shall be the Fire Inspector
of the Village of Randolph 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 Village of Randolph
at all reasonable hours for the purpose of making inspections or investigations
which, under the provisions of this Code, 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 and, if such directions are not complied
with, to report such noncompliance to the Village Board for further
action.
(3)
The Chief of the Fire Department is required, by himself/herself
or by officers or members of the Fire Department designated by him/her
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 once in six months in all of the territory
served by the Fire Department, and not less than once in three months
in such territory as the Village Board has designated or hereafter
designates as within the Village or as a congested district subject
to conflagration, and more often as the Chief of the Fire Department
orders. Each six-month period shall begin on January 1 and July 1.
C.
Fire Inspectors Handbook. The Fire Inspectors Handbook, Department
of Safety and Professional Services, is hereby adopted and made part
of this Code by reference.
D.
Fire lane designation. The Fire Chief shall have the authority to
designate fire lanes.
A.
Driving over fire hose. No person shall willfully injure in any manner
any hose, hydrant or fire apparatus belonging to the Randolph Fire
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 any
police officer.
A.
Entering adjacent property. It shall be lawful for any firefighter
while acting under the direction of the Fire Chief 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 firefighter in the discharge of his/her 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/her assistant 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 and any hydrant to which a fire hose
may be, or may be about to be, attached.
