Free fire escape plan · tree service in California
A California tree service keeps chips, logs, saws and fuel in a yard that may back onto dry brush, and its crews work outdoors on days when wildfire smoke drifts in. Upload a whiteboard photo, a sketch or a floor plan of the shop to get a free draft showing routes, exits, safety symbols and a meeting point. Later on this page: a fire prevention plan written around the yard, smoke days versus the fire alarm, the chip pile, the log deck and the brush on the draft, and questions for the San José Fire Department.
A planning draft, not an inspection or approval. Cal/OSHA, the California Fire Code and your local fire department decide what applies to your yard.
Cal/OSHA §3221
Cal/OSHA’s fire prevention plan rule names what goes in: the fire hazards you could have, how those materials are handled and stored, the ignition sources (welding and smoking are its examples) and housekeeping procedures, which must be part of the written plan (Title 8 §3221). For a tree service, most of those items sit in the yard rather than inside the building, so walk the yard with the plan in hand.
| In the yard or shop | Hazard to list | Handling, storage, ignition or housekeeping notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wood chip pile | A large pile of fine, dry fuel near the building | Pile size, its distance from the building and the property line, and when it is hauled away |
| Log deck | Stacked logs and rounds waiting to be split or hauled | Stacked so rounds can’t roll, and kept off the outside routes |
| Fuel cabinet | Gasoline and two-stroke mix for the saws, plus bar oil | Kept in the cabinet, with refuelling done outdoors away from the doors |
| Saw bench and stump grinder | Hot engines, exhaust and sharpening sparks | A cool-down spot before saws go back on the rack, and no sharpening beside the fuel |
| Brush at the yard edge | Dry vegetation next to the yard | Who keeps it cut back, and which way people go if it burns |
Cal/OSHA lets employers with 10 or fewer employees communicate the fire prevention plan orally instead of keeping it in writing (§3221). A small crew still benefits from the posted map, because the yard hazards and the routes are easier to point at than to describe.
Smoke days
Cal/OSHA’s wildfire smoke rule starts at a current PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more where workers may reasonably be expected to be exposed, and it exempts enclosed buildings with mechanically filtered air when doors and windows stay closed (Title 8 §5141.1). In the San José example, the crew room is the filtered room where crews take breaks on smoke days.
A smoke-day call and a fire alarm ask for opposite moves, so give each its own line in the plan: who decides, how the crew hears it and where people go. New hires should hear both before their first smoke season.
Assembly point · the generator
Photograph the whiteboard sketch, or upload a floor plan or a PDF, one floor per upload. You get routes, exits, safety symbols and a meeting point for the building itself; the chip pile, the log deck and the brush line are yours to add and check in the editor.
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Every result is a draft. Before fire season, walk each route from the crew room, the bay and the office to its door, then post it.
Before and after
The plain plan shows the crew room, the equipment bay, the yard and the brush. The draft routes the crew room through the bay to the rear man door, marks the fuel and grinder extinguishers and leads everyone to a meeting point in the front lot.
What the draft adds to the San José yard
Chips, logs and brush
A floor plan stops at the walls, but a tree service’s biggest fuel loads sit in the yard. The animation adds the yard to the San José example step by step, and the notes below say which parts come from a code and which are advice.
San José
San José, California’s third-largest city, had 997,368 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2024 estimate (Census Bureau). Its fire department can answer yard questions that a floor plan can’t.
| Question | Why it matters for the plan |
|---|---|
| Does the California Fire Code, as you enforce it, set a different chip pile spacing from the model code’s 1.5 times the height? | The answer decides where the pile can sit and whether the outside route passes it. |
| Who is responsible for clearing the brush along our yard edge, and how far back? | A cleared strip changes how close the log deck and the chipper can sit to the yard edge. |
| Should the posted plan show the yard, the chip pile and the brush as well as the building? | It tells you how much of the yard to add in the editor before you post. |
Outside San José, take the same questions to the city fire department or fire district for your own address; the California guide also covers Los Angeles and San Diego.
Keep planning
The two guides this page builds on, plus outdoor trades with yards, fuel and smoke seasons of their own.
Questions
No. A photo of the whiteboard sketch, a floor plan or a PDF gets a watermarked preview without an account. The free account asks for no card and gives you 5 free floor-plan uploads per month, with up to 5 regenerations per upload. Editing tools come with the account as well. Each export says draft until the posting review is finished.
Cal/OSHA’s rule names the potential fire hazards, how those materials are handled and stored, the ignition sources and housekeeping procedures. For a tree service that means the chip pile, logs, fuel, saws and grinder. Employers with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally.
Cal/OSHA’s smoke rule exempts enclosed buildings with mechanically filtered air where doors and windows are kept closed, so a filtered crew room can serve as the smoke-day break room. A fire alarm is different: everyone leaves by the posted routes and meets outside.
The San José Fire Department, for yard questions such as chip pile spacing under the California Fire Code, brush clearing and how much of the yard the posted plan should show. Cal/OSHA’s rules cover the workplace side, such as the fire prevention plan and smoke days.
Illustrations on this page use fictional layouts made for this page. They are not customer plans or live generator results.
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