Lone Star Fire Extinguisher Co. inspects, tags, recharges, mounts and sells fire extinguishers for Frisco businesses, apartment communities and homes. Our technicians come to your property with stock on the truck, so most of what a walkthrough turns up gets handled on the same visit. The Brantley family has run the company since 1993.
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In Frisco, the fire department sees your extinguishers before the city lets you open. A new tenant, a new owner, a change of use, even a new business name all require a certificate of occupancy, and the city’s process calls for a fire inspection with each one. For new construction, alterations and new certificates of occupancy, the fire final happens before the city’s building inspector does the CO inspection.
The city’s fire final checklist has a line for extinguisher placement and states that every extinguisher must have an acceptance tag. So a space with the right number of units, hung in the right spots, can still be held up by a missing or out-of-date tag.
That’s the part we take off your plate before the inspector arrives:
If you’re opening a restaurant, the health final comes first in Frisco’s sequence, then fire. Booking us before either one keeps the extinguishers from being the reason the date slides.
Frisco adopted the 2024 International Fire Code in January 2026, with local amendments, and it took effect on March 1, 2026. It replaced the 2021 edition, which the city adopted in late 2022.
For most tenants nothing changes overnight. It matters when you build out, expand or change what the space is used for, because that work is inspected under the code in force when it’s permitted. A suite finished out in 2025 passed under the 2021 edition. The same suite remodeled next year is checked against 2024 and Frisco’s amendments.
We look at which edition your project falls under before we size and place anything, and we’ll tell you plainly if an older layout needs another unit or a different rating.
Frisco’s inspections page asks for one thing that’s easy to miss: all previous inspection reports must stay on site where the inspector can see them. The tag on each cylinder shows it was serviced, and the reports show an inspector the history behind it.
Every Lone Star visit ends with a dated service record listing each unit, its location and what we did. Keep it with your other fire reports, and the next inspector has the whole picture in one folder. If you’ve lost track of older paperwork, we can rebuild the extinguisher side of it from the tags and manufacture dates on the next visit.
Kitchens get their own line on Frisco’s hood suppression checklist: a K-class extinguisher placed within 30 feet of the cooking appliance. State rules add a second check. When a licensed hood company does the semi-annual service on your suppression system, it confirms the backup portable extinguisher is listed for Class K fires.
We supply and mount the K-class unit, keep it on the same service calendar as your ABC extinguishers, and make sure it’s where both the hood technician and the fire inspector expect to find it.
Food truck licensing moved to the state this year. As of July 1, 2026, the Texas Department of State Health Services licenses and inspects food vending vehicles statewide. Frisco still requires vendors to follow local fire codes, so the extinguishers on the truck still need current service and tags. Vendors working a Frisco special event or a temporary food booth also need an extinguisher inside the tent, per the city’s booth requirements. We service and tag a truck’s units on site.
Frisco went from about 6,000 residents in 1990 to about 200,000 in 2020, and most of the city was built inside those thirty years, so a lot of its extinguishers went on the walls in the same few years.
Texas adopts NFPA 10, the national standard for portable extinguishers, by state rule. Under it, the common stored-pressure dry chemical extinguisher gets an annual inspection, an internal maintenance at six years and a hydrostatic test at twelve. A building that opened with a full set of new units hits those dates together, and so do the buildings around it that opened the same year.
On each visit we read the manufacture date on every cylinder, flag the ones coming due, and plan the six-year and twelve-year work so it lands on a scheduled visit rather than as a surprise on an inspection report. Sometimes replacing a unit costs less than its hydrostatic test. When that’s the case, we’ll say so.
Here’s how that plays out across the kinds of Frisco properties we service.
Multi-floor offices bring a long unit list: every floor, server and electrical rooms, break rooms and parking levels. For these we keep a written unit list by location, so the annual visit is a scheduled route.
Frisco is home to five professional sports teams. Venues on that scale have concession kitchens that need K-class units, back-of-house storage, and seating areas where units have to stay visible and reachable through every event setup.
Retail and restaurant suites turn over often, and every turnover means a new certificate of occupancy and a fire inspection. It pays to book extinguisher service as soon as the lease is signed, before the opening date is set.
About a quarter of Frisco’s homes are in multifamily buildings, many of them large complexes. We service common-area, leasing office and maintenance shop extinguishers, and in-unit extinguishers where a property provides them.
Short-term rentals have a rule of their own here. Frisco’s permit has no in-person inspection, so the host must certify, under penalty of perjury, that the rental has a functioning extinguisher rated for ordinary combustibles. A multipurpose ABC unit covers that rating. We sell, mount and tag them for hosts.
In Texas, servicing and certifying a portable extinguisher takes a licensed technician working for a registered company, and the licensee signs the tag. Once a year, our fire extinguisher inspection and certification service checks every unit: pressure, seals and pins, hose and nozzle, mounting, signage and access. Each passing unit gets a current tag, and anything that fails is usually fixed or replaced on the spot.
After any discharge, even a short one, a unit needs a recharge before it counts again. That’s part of our extinguisher maintenance and recharge service, along with the six-year internal maintenance, hydrostatic testing coordination and parts like hoses, gauges and pins. When a unit isn’t worth saving, we tell you and price the replacement next to it.
A new suite or a remodel usually starts from a blank floor plan. Through our extinguisher installation and mounting service, we size each unit to the hazard in the room, set the spacing, and mount it on a bracket or in a cabinet at the correct height with signage where it’s needed.
We sell ABC, CO2, Halotron and K-class extinguishers, plus fire extinguisher cabinets, commercial first aid kits and safety signs. Through our fire safety equipment sales, property managers outfitting several buildings can buy in bulk at wholesale pricing.
If your team has never pulled a pin, a class fixes that. Our fire safety training classes show staff how to pick the right extinguisher and use it, and we hold them at your Frisco location on your schedule.
Frisco sits in two counties, Collin and Denton, and its fire code applies across the whole city. We work in both parts.
Standard on every Lone Star job:
Yes. Frisco requires a new certificate of occupancy for a name change, a new owner or tenant, or a change of use, and its CO process calls for a fire inspection each time. It’s worth having the extinguishers serviced and tagged before that visit is booked.
The city’s fire final checklist covers extinguisher placement and requires an acceptance tag on every extinguisher. Units that are in the right place but untagged, or tagged out of date, can hold up the final.
Frisco’s short-term rental permit requires the host to certify a functioning extinguisher rated for ordinary combustibles, along with working smoke detectors. A multipurpose ABC extinguisher meets the rating. We can supply, mount and tag one.
Yes. Since July 1, 2026, the state licenses and inspects food trucks, but Frisco still requires vendors to follow local fire codes. Keep the truck’s extinguishers serviced and tagged, including a K-class unit if you cook with grease.
A licensed technician inspects and tags each unit once a year. Your staff should glance at gauges, pins and access monthly. Stored-pressure dry chemical units also need internal maintenance every six years and a hydrostatic test every twelve, and we track those dates for you.
