Fire Extinguisher
in Pickering
Tagged, charged, in date and where the code says they should be, across every extinguisher in your building, with the log to prove it. About 28 minutes from the Harex base in Oshawa.
- JURISDICTION
- DURHAM REGION
- MUNICIPALITY
- City of Pickering
- AUTHORITY
- Pickering Fire Services
- PREVENTION DIV.
- Fire Prevention Section
- CONTACT
- 905-250-0420
- COVERAGE
- ALL SERVICES
- FROM OSHAWA BASE
- ~28 km · ~28 min
- FILE
- HRX-1983 / PICKERING
Fire Extinguisher in Pickering
Harex provides every service in Pickering: inspection, testing, repair, installation and verification, with the 24-hour emergency line answered for Pickering buildings at any hour.
Pickering Fire Services' Fire Prevention Section sits under the Deputy Chief of Administration and is staffed by a Chief Fire Prevention Officer, a Fire Prevention Officer and fire inspectors. It enforces both the Ontario Fire Code and the Building Code on the city's buildings.
Pickering has about 800 acres of employment sites available, and Pickering East, with Ajax West, forms one of the Region's three Provincially Significant Employment Zones.
Harex forwards every completed fire extinguisher report for a Pickering building to Pickering Fire Services, so the building is on record as maintained with the department that would otherwise be the one to notice a lapse. Pickering is about 28 minutes from the Harex base in Oshawa; travel is billed, and a three-year contract fixes the rate for its term.
Harex also provides fire extinguisher in Ajax and Scarborough.
What the code requires
Portable extinguishers are checked monthly by the building and serviced annually by Harex, which is a qualified technician, given internal maintenance at six years, and hydrostatically tested at twelve. Miss a stage and the unit is not compliant, whatever the gauge says.
The service cycle
Harex tracks which of your units are due for what, so a six-year or twelve-year date never surprises you during an inspection.
What we check on every unit
- CHARGE & PRESSURE
- HOSE & NOZZLE
- PIN & TAMPER SEAL
- SHELL & DAMAGE
- MOUNTING & ACCESS
- SIGNAGE & TAG DATE
- CORRECT TYPE FOR HAZARD
- TRAVEL DISTANCE
Wrong class of extinguisher for the hazard, or one hung too far from the risk, is a deficiency an Ontario inspector will write up. It is a deficiency even when the unit itself is perfect. We flag both.
Common questions
Terms of work in Pickering
- Authority having jurisdiction
- Pickering Fire Services, City of Pickering. Fire Prevention Section.
- Prevention division contact
- 905-250-0420 · 1700 Zents Dr, Pickering
- Coverage in Pickering
- All services.
- Governing standard
- 6-YR · HYDROSTATIC. Monthly → annual.
- From the Oshawa base
- About 28 km, 28 minutes by road. Approximate.
Area facts reviewed September 2026 · sources on file
What clients say
across every platform
“Harex has looked after our alarm and extinguishers for years. They come when they say they will, and the report is in our hands before the insurer asks for it.”
“We were told the whole system had to be replaced. Harex asked the fire department why, in writing, and the scope came back a fraction of what we had been quoted.”
“We had thirty days and a list we did not understand. They went through it item by item, told us what was actually required, and we passed the re-inspection.”
“Four buildings, one schedule, one set of reports. I stopped chasing three different contractors for paperwork the month we switched.”
“Panel went into trouble on a Saturday night. Somebody answered, walked our supervisor through it on the phone, and had a technician there before the shift started.”
“We were told the whole system had to be replaced. Harex asked the fire department why, in writing, and the scope came back a fraction of what we had been quoted.”