Wichita Fire Department, Community Risk Reduction Division

Fire Code Compliance Inspection and High-Hazard Permits

The City's own budget documents confirm the Community Risk Reduction Division performs more than 9,000 code-administration inspections and 500 commercial plan reviews a year, is 'responsible for fire code enforcement in commercial properties, licensing inspection, plans review, permit issuance, complaint response, and numerous high-hazard inspections which include fireworks, hazardous materials, and assembly occupancies,' and separately 'addresses code enforcement in [public] and private schools, daycare inspections, and adult care facility compliance' — so a day care centre genuinely does receive its own fire inspection here, unlike Fort Smith, Arkansas, where no such classification is published. No fee for any of this — inspection, plan review, or permit issuance — is published anywhere this research could reach, so none is asserted.