How South Florida Fire Departments Get Your Kitchen Fire Reports Through The Compliance Engine

How The Compliance Engine works

The Compliance Engine is an online reporting system run by Brycer. Fire protection companies upload their inspection, testing and maintenance reports to it, and the fire department reviews them there. It takes reports for kitchen hood suppression systems, portable fire extinguishers, sprinklers, fire alarms and other systems. Which ones depend on what each fire department asks for.

• The company that did the work files the report, and owners don’t have to upload anything themselves.
• Fire departments and building owners pay nothing to use it. The service company pays a filing fee on each report, and some local governments add a fee of their own.
• The system checks each report and flags deficiencies for follow-up. Notices go to the building owner and the service company by email, mail or phone.
• Owners can look up their building’s reports in Brycer’s premises portal.

Fire departments in our area that use The Compliance Engine

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue’s Fire Prevention Bureau enforces the fire code in the city. Its routine check of your kitchen’s fire protection now runs on reports. Your hood cleaning, kitchen fire suppression, extinguisher, sprinkler, emergency light and fire alarm companies each upload theirs. Brycer’s team reviews every report first, and the fire department then checks it for accuracy. A report showing a clearly deficient system lands on a separate list, and those kitchens get an inspector in person.

Brycer’s own sales materials named Fort Lauderdale as a partner department by 2021. A kitchen exhaust cleaning report we filed in 2026 lists Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue as the authority that reviewed it. More on our Fort Lauderdale page

Oakland Park

The City of Oakland Park‘s commission took up an agreement with Brycer for third-party life safety reports in 2021. The city’s fee schedule effective Oct. 1, 2026 requires every third-party life safety report to be submitted electronically and charges a $15 city fee per submission. More on kitchen fire suppression inspection in Broward.

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea

In June 2026 we worked with Brycer’s support team on a kitchen exhaust cleaning report for a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea kitchen in The Compliance Engine. If your kitchen is in town, ask your hood cleaning company whether it files your report there.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue covers unincorporated Miami-Dade County and 29 cities. Doral, Aventura, Miami Lakes and Sunny Isles Beach are among them. On Sept. 1, 2026, the county commission approved Ordinance 26-70. Once the fire department picks an outside company to accept inspection, testing and maintenance reports, those reports go to that company. Breaking the reporting rules carries civil penalties of $250 for a first offense, $500 for a second and $1,000 for a third or later within five years. The county’s fire fee schedule, in effect since Oct. 1, 2025, adds $10 per report, collected by the department’s contractor on top of that contractor’s own fee.

A fire protection contractor reports that a Sept. 8, 2026 letter from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue named The Compliance Engine as that system from Oct. 1, 2026, with kitchen hood suppression and kitchen exhaust cleaning on its list. The cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Coral Gables and Key Biscayne run their own fire departments. The ordinance applies once a department adopts a reporting company, so each of those cities decides for itself. More on our Miami-Dade page.

Coral Gables Fire Department

Coral Gables’ city code, amended in October 2025, requires reports to go through a web-based fire inspection reporting system the city approves. A Coral Gables Fire Department hood suppression renewal notice from September 2026 tells the inspection company to submit all test reports through The Compliance Engine.

Delray Beach Fire Rescue

Delray Beach Fire Rescue‘s letter to service providers names The Compliance Engine as its reporting system. Since Jan. 15, 2026, fire extinguisher reports no longer have to go through it.

Boynton Beach Fire Rescue

Boynton Beach’s city code sends inspection, testing and maintenance records to the fire department through a third-party inspection reporting system. We file our kitchen hood suppression reports for Boynton Beach Fire Rescue in The Compliance Engine, and the department reviews them there.

Greenacres Fire Rescue

Greenacres’ city code, adopted Jan. 8, 2024, requires reports to be submitted electronically through a web-based system the city approves. Once the fire marshal gives notice of a violation, you have 10 days to correct it unless a hazard exists. Brycer notified us in June 2024, as a service company on The Compliance Engine, that Greenacres Fire Rescue had adopted it. Since Dec. 8, 2025, fire extinguisher reports no longer go through it there.

Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue

Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue‘s code section, from Sept. 19, 2023, requires electronic submission through a city-approved web-based system for both fixed and portable fire protection systems. Brycer’s June 2026 notice to us about a new report type there names Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue on The Compliance Engine.

Town of Palm Beach Fire Rescue

Brycer notified us in March 2026 that the Town of Palm Beach Fire Rescue had adopted The Compliance Engine. A notice in June 2026 added backflow reports there, so the list of systems can grow. Ask your service companies which of your reports they file.

Boca Raton requires online reports

Boca Raton’s Ordinance 5726, passed Feb. 25, 2025, sends reports through an internet-based fire inspection reporting system of the city, though nothing public names the system. Boca Raton Fire Rescue‘s pre-inspection checklist also looks for a hood suppression system inspected and tagged within the last six months.

Where it works differently

Plantation and Coconut Creek use FireModule

Plantation, where our office is, collects reports through FireModule, a different online system. Since June 15, 2026, a notice from the Plantation Fire Department’s Fire Marshal has required inspection companies working in the city to upload their reports there. The notice lists kitchen hood exhaust cleaning and suppression reports among them. Coconut Creek Fire Rescue takes kitchen exhaust cleaning and kitchen hood suppression reports through FireModule too. More on our Plantation page.

In Lauderhill, the inspector watches the test

In Lauderhill, the kitchen fire suppression inspection is a witnessed test. The state-licensed permittee runs it while a city fire inspector stands on site and watches, the same way a fire final closes out a permit. Lauderhill Fire Rescue lists fire suppression system testing among its fire prevention inspections. If your kitchen is in Lauderhill, tell us when you book.

Miami Beach keeps its own contractor forms

The Miami Beach Fire Department still lists its own contractor report forms, one of them for semi-annual cooking equipment extinguishing systems.

Other cities we serve may take reports on paper or by email, or check in person. Ask us how yours handles them.

What restaurant owners should do

1. Find out which fire department is yours. Doral and Aventura are Miami-Dade Fire Rescue territory, while Miami Beach has its own department.
2. Check that every report went in. Your hood cleaner, suppression company, extinguisher company and the rest each file their own. Ask each one to confirm.
3. Act on a deficiency notice quickly. Get the repair done and a new report filed. Greenacres gives 10 days after notice.
4. Keep your own copies. In Florida, the technician completes an inspection report after each service of a pre-engineered suppression system, and a signed copy goes to the owner. Ours also stay in our service portal.
5. If you’re renovating, line up fire’s sign-off early. Your temporary certificate of occupancy, and then the final one, wait on the fire department. Fire holds up more of those jobs than anything else. Our restaurant hood installation page walks through the order.

How we handle reports for the kitchens we service

We upload our own kitchen hood cleaning and kitchen fire suppression reports to The Compliance Engine for the fire departments that use it. You keep the signed report from the visit, and the fire department gets its copy through the system.

Done Right is licensed by the Florida Division of State Fire Marshal to service, repair, install and inspect pre-engineered kitchen fire suppression systems. When hood cleaning is due the same month as the suppression inspection, our done-all-at-once visit does both on one trip, with a filter exchange and a fan check. You get one report.

We also hold a State Fire Marshal license for portable fire extinguishers, so we inspect, tag, service and hydrotest those too, on the same schedule as your hood system. More on our commercial fire extinguishers page.

We file both the hood cleaning and the suppression reports, so you have one person to call and coordinate with for these essential kitchen services, all under one roof.

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