Kitchen Fire Suppression Inspection in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County

Why the six-month tag matters

Florida fire department checklists look for a hood suppression service tag less than six months old. That’s why we inspect on a six-month schedule and send you a reminder before the next visit is due.

How the fire department checks depends on the city. Broward County’s local fire code calls for fire inspections of buildings and premises at least once a year. In Fort Lauderdale, where Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue’s Fire Prevention Bureau enforces the fire code, that routine check now runs on reports filed in The Compliance Engine. We upload the suppression inspection report there, Brycer’s staff look it over, and then the fire department reviews it. A clearly deficient report is what sends an inspector to your kitchen.

In Lauderhill, the kitchen fire suppression inspection is a witnessed test. The state-licensed permittee runs it while an inspector from Lauderhill Fire Rescue watches on site, much like a fire final on a permit job. Our Compliance Engine page lists the fire departments in our area that take reports online.

The state’s restaurant inspectors, at the DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants, publish a weekly list of fire-safety items they see, and they notify the local fire authority. The list dated August 22, 2026 includes a Fort Lauderdale entry for cooking equipment making grease-laden smoke with no hood suppression system installed.

What happens at a semiannual inspection

Our technician works through the kitchen fire suppression system over your cook line:

• The detection line and the fusible links that sense heat over the appliances.
• Each nozzle and its cap.
• The agent cylinder that holds the wet chemical agent.
• The manual pull station your staff would use in an emergency.
• The gas or electric shutoff that cuts fuel or power to the cooking equipment when the system goes off.
• The service tag and the inspection report.

These Florida Building Code requirements cover your system:

• Pre-engineered wet and dry chemical systems that protect commercial cooking have to be tested to UL 300.
• There has to be a manual pull station at or near an exit path from the cooking area.
• The system must automatically shut off fuel or electric power to the cooking equipment, with a manual reset.

Those requirements come from the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), in effect since December 31, 2023.

What you have before we leave

• You get a signed report. After each inspection or service of a pre-engineered system in Florida, the technician completes an inspection report and a signed copy goes to the owner.
• A system that passes gets a service tag. The technicians who do this work in Florida need a state permit. The service tag on the system shows the technician’s name and permit number.
• Past reports and upcoming appointments are online in our customer portal, and we remind you before the next inspection is due.

If something doesn’t pass, we explain what failed and what it takes to fix it.

When a system needs more than an inspection

If you moved, replaced or added a cooking appliance, your suppression system was laid out for the line-up you had when it went in. Call us before the new appliance goes into service. We’ll check the system against the new line-up and tell you what has to change.

If the system went off, call us at (954) 399-6161. We’ll inspect it, recharge it and reset it before you cook again.

If you’re opening a new kitchen, our restaurant hood installation page walks through the sequence.

Licensed for this work in Florida

In Florida, a business that services, inspects, installs or recharges fire extinguishers or pre-engineered fire suppression systems must be licensed by the Division of State Fire Marshal.

Done Right is licensed by the Florida Division of State Fire Marshal to service, repair, install and inspect pre-engineered kitchen fire suppression systems, under a Fire Equipment Dealer license. We also have a CaptiveAire TANK certified technician on staff, and we’re 5-star rated on Google.

Hood cleaning on the same visit

If hood cleaning is due around the same time, book them together. Our done-all-at-once visit covers hood and duct cleaning, the suppression inspection, a filter exchange and an exhaust fan and belt check in a single visit. You get one report and one set of stickers and tags. Cleaning reports include before-and-after photos. More on hood cleaning.

Those essential kitchen services come from one office, with one person to call and coordinate with.

Where we work

Our office is in Plantation, and our crews work in kitchens across Broward County. In Fort Lauderdale that covers Las Olas Boulevard, downtown and the beach. We also work in Plantation, Sunrise, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Hollywood, Cooper City, Oakland Park and Deerfield Beach. More on the city on our Fort Lauderdale page.

Repairs, precipitators and installs

• Emergency repairs, with rapid response across South Florida from our Plantation office.
• We service electrostatic precipitators (pollution control units), which few companies are licensed to do.
• Installs with the city filing handled for you.

Suppression inspection questions we hear