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An active site has exposed framing, stacked combustibles, temporary electrical, fuel on hand, and sprinkler systems that do not work yet, then adds welding and cutting to the mix. Construction fires start easily, spread fast, and most of them ignite after the crew has gone home, in the smolder window nobody was watching. OPPS provides construction fire watch coverage across Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware built around exactly that risk profile.
Our site fire watch services cover both halves of the job: hot work monitoring while sparks are flying, and the after-hours watch that catches what the workday left smoldering. Both run to the fire code standard your permits and your GC’s insurance require.
Building site fire safety is a moving target, and the watch has to move with it.
A site’s fire risk changes weekly: new floors decked, new materials staged, temporary heat in winter, standpipes not yet charged. We coordinate with your superintendent to keep the watch plan current: which areas hot work touches this week, where combustibles are stacked, which egress routes exist today, and where extinguishers and water sources actually are on a site that rearranges itself daily.
After hours, our guards walk the structure on timed rounds, checking hot work areas from the day, temporary electrical, fuel storage, and heater placements, logging every round. Because the difference between a smolder found at 9 PM and one found at 5 AM is the difference between an incident report and a total loss.
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