Fire Safety Plans Mission

Who needs a fire safety plan in Mission

Mission Fire Rescue Service enforces Section 2.8 of the BC Fire Code: every building with a fire alarm system, every assembly or care occupancy, every building with sprinkler or standpipe systems, every storage or hazardous-process area the Code names separately, and every construction and demolition site needs a fire safety plan. In Mission that covers the retail plazas and hotels along the Lougheed Highway, the downtown blocks along 1st and 2nd Avenues, the apartment buildings and stratas on the hillside above the highway, the schools, churches, and care homes, the waterfront and rail-side industrial sites, and the new mixed-use buildings going up around the West Coast Express station.

Mission has grown faster than most Fraser Valley cities in the last few years, and its fire department has kept pace with a formal construction fire safety plan program: a Construction Fire Safety Plan Bulletin that the planner completes and submits with every construction plan, cross-referencing each Fire Code and NFPA 241 requirement to the page in the plan where it is met. That level of detail carries over to how the department reads an occupancy plan.

How Mission Fire Rescue reviews a plan

Fire Prevention at Mission Fire Rescue Service reviews plans and runs the inspection program for commercial, assembly, residential, and industrial buildings. What reviewers and inspectors expect:

• A site-specific plan with scaled drawings for every level showing exits, fire protection equipment, fire department connections, shut-offs, assembly areas, and hazard rooms.
• Fire department information up front: supervisory staff, emergency contacts, building description, alarm and sprinkler details with the monitoring company, and primary and secondary access routes.
• For construction plans, the Bulletin checklist: an on-site fire safety director who is the WorkSafeBC-qualified coordinator, a site schematic with hydrants, extinguishers, hazardous storage, and emergency routes, standpipes installed progressively, hot-work procedures, and a pre-construction meeting.
• Drawings on file with the City: when a building’s original plans are needed, the City’s building department releases them on a records request with a research fee, in two to five business days, and requires an Agent Appointment form if the requester is not the registered owner. We handle that request for you.
• Fire drills at the frequency BC Fire Code 2.8.3.2 sets for the occupancy, with records kept in the plan.

The buildings we plan for in Mission

Since 2003 we have prepared more than 1,000 fire safety plans across BC, and Mission is twenty minutes from our Abbotsford office. Our work there runs to four types:

• The Lougheed Highway corridor: hotel properties, restaurants, multi-unit retail plazas, and service businesses in the plazas between the Mission Bridge and the east end of town, where each tenant’s plan has to fit the base building’s alarm and sprinkler systems.
• Downtown along 1st Avenue, 2nd Avenue, Welton Street, and the surrounding blocks: heritage commercial buildings with suites above, offices, and the mixed-use buildings replacing them, several of which started with us as construction fire safety plans.
• The hillside residential neighbourhoods along Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Street, Cedar Street, and Hurd Street: three- and four-storey wood-frame apartment buildings, townhouse complexes, and seniors’ residences.
• Institutional and industrial: schools, churches, care homes, the recreation facilities, and the mills and yards along the river and the rail line, where hazardous materials and fire department access drive the plan.

Our commercial fire safety plan page covers restaurants, retail, and offices in more depth. Buildings in Abbotsford and Maple Ridge have their own fire departments and their own pages.

Keeping a Mission plan current

The plan should be reviewed every year and updated whenever the Fire Safety Director, property manager, monitoring or service contractors, tenants, or building systems change. Business-licence and routine inspections check for a current plan on site. Under the 2026 BC Fire Safety Act an out-of-date plan is an owner-liability issue, not a paperwork gap. Name and contact updates on plans we have written are free.

How it works with GetFirePlan

1. Firm quote in one business day, one flat fee. See what a fire safety plan costs in BC.
2. Site visit to confirm exits, equipment, shut-offs, and layout, and to photograph every fire protection system. If the building’s drawings are only on file with the City, we request them.
3. Draft in 5–7 business days: CAD drawings and the full written plan, sent to you for review before submission.
4. Submission to Mission Fire Rescue Service, any revisions they request at no extra charge, and delivery of the accepted plan in print and PDF with wall plaques and a fire safety plan box if you need one.

Approval is guaranteed. If Mission Fire Rescue Service rejects a plan we prepared, we revise it until it is accepted.

Frequently asked questions

We do not have drawings of our building. Can you still prepare a plan?
Yes. We either measure the building during the site visit or request the original permit drawings from the City’s building department on your behalf, which takes a research fee and a few business days.

Does Mission charge to review a plan?
The City does not publish a fire safety plan review fee. We confirm any charge with Fire Prevention at submission and include it in your quote.

Our new building is under construction. When does the occupancy plan start?
The construction plan and its Bulletin checklist cover the site until the building is ready for occupancy. We prepare the occupancy plan from the same drawings so it is ready before the final inspection.

Our plaza has eight tenants. Is that one plan or eight?
Usually one base-building plan for the landlord and short tenant supplements for units with their own hazards, such as restaurants. We confirm the structure with Fire Prevention.

Do you handle construction fire safety plans in Mission?
Yes. Our construction division at constructionfiresafetyplans.ca prepares those, including the Mission Bulletin. Request a quote and we reply within one business day.