Wake County Fire Services & Emergency Management, Fire Marshal's Office

Fire Services Operational Permit (blasting, underground storage tank removal, tents, pyrotechnics)

Wake County Fire Services states that it 'issues all mandatory permits as required pursuant to Section 105 of the NC Fire Prevention Code for blasting, underground storage tank removal and tents within all the unincorporated areas of Wake County and the municipalities of Rolesville and Wendell', asking for five business days to process. Pyrotechnics runs on a wider footprint: the same page states that Fire Services 'also issues the Mandatory Operational Permit for Pyrotechnics as required pursuant to Section 105 of the NC Fire Prevention Code and NCGS Chapter 14 Article 54 in all of Wake County, except for the municipal limits of the City of Raleigh, and property owned by UNC and NCSU', with a minimum of 15 business days for processing. Applications go through the county's permit portal. This matters to an auto-repair business removing an underground storage tank, a contractor blasting rock on a site, and a restaurant or retail business putting up a tent for an event within that footprint; Raleigh-Durham International Airport separately requires a Height Zoning permit for pyrotechnics within its aircraft approach plan. The county publishes the permit requirement and its scope on that page but prints no fee for these four operational permits, and the county's Permits & Inspections fee schedule itemises only re-inspection, max violations, amend permit and homeowner recovery charges under Other Fees, so the amount should be confirmed with the Fire Marshal's Office on 919-856-6343 before budgeting. A restaurant's sprinkler or hood suppression work inside a county-permitted build-out is priced instead on the commercial per-trade fee table, where Fire Services is one of the six trades.