Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office: preventing fires

When area fire departments are called out for a fire, it is because it is happening in real time and needs to be put out fast. That is what the Houston Fire Department, Humble Fire Department, Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department and at least 38 other Harris County area fire departments with over 200 fire stations do.
But it is not what the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office does. Its mission is to prevent fires in the first place.

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