North Dakota State Fire Marshal

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The Office of the North Dakota State Fire Marshal is a fire marshal agency in the U.S. state of North Dakota. It is a division of the North Dakota Insurance Department. [1]

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The current State Fire Marshal is Doug Nelson, appointed in 2018. [2]

Duties and responsibilities

The State Fire Marshal and deputy fire marshals enforce the laws of the State of North Dakota relating to the prevention of fires, combustibles, explosives, fireworks, and hazardous materials, the suppression of arson, and fire and safety code compliance. [3]

The agency is also responsible for investigating the origin and cause of fires and publishing statistics regarding fire-related incidents. [4] [5] It conducts an approximate average of one hundred forensic investigations per year. [6]

Notable investigations

In 2024, the agency investigated the origin and cause of wildfires that burned more than 100,000 acres in North Dakota, and caused two fatalities. [7] It determined the fires had been caused by oil well flaring and were accidental. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Chapter 18-01 State Fire Marshal Department". North Dakota Century Code (PDF). North Dakota State Legislature. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "Leadership". North Dakota Insurance Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-07-09. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Section 18-01-02. Duties of state fire marshal and deputy fire marshals.". North Dakota Century Code (PDF). North Dakota State Legislature. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  4. ↑ "State Fire Marshal releases preliminary 2024 fire statistics". Minot, North Dakota: Minot Daily News. February 21, 2025. Archived from the original on 2025-02-21. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Shores (April 30, 2025). "How deputy state fire marshals train to investigate the real thing". Bismarck, North Dakota: KFYR-TV. Archived from the original on 2025-07-24. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Intro to the State Fire Marshal's Office". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-08-04. Retrieved 4 August 2025– via North Dakota League of Cities.
  7. ↑ Jeff Beach and Amy Dalrymple (10 October 2024). "110,000 acres burned; multiple agencies will investigate North Dakota wildfires". North Dakota Monitor. Archived from the original on 2025-07-25. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  8. ↑ Michael Anthony. "State Fire Marshal: Flaring the source of two October wildfires". Bismarck, North Dakota: KFYR-TV. Archived from the original on 2024-11-14. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
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