Iconic Village fire influences code, department changes

The San Marcos Fire Department and San Marcos dispatch have made changes to their departments following the Iconic Village fire that occurred on July 20, 2018.  

San Marcos Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner said the fire that killed five helped push along the department’s move to keeping digital records of fire inspections. 

“We had always been on pencil and paper,” Kistner said. “When people started asking the last time this place was inspected? Or when was this inspected? When was the last time Iconic was inspected? We literally had to sit there and go back through paper after paper. Today, a click of a few keys and we can give you inspection reports back since about March of this year. It took us some time to procure that and implement it.”