§00 · About Sentinel

Built for the post,
not the patrol.

Sentinel Fire Watch Services was founded to fill a specific gap in Florida's life-safety landscape: a fire watch company built around the realities of condominium associations — long-running alarm and sprinkler upgrades, ELSS retrofits, and the documentation standard that satisfies the AHJ.

Today, Sentinel covers high-rise condos, mid-rise associations, and the engineers and contractors performing the retrofits — with statewide dispatch, monthly board-ready reporting, and a compliance posture written for Florida Statute 633.

§01 · Operating Principles

How we run a post.

01

Specialized, not generalized

Sentinel personnel are trained for fire watch — patrol routing, NFPA familiarity, and code documentation. Fire watch is the entire mission.

02

Documentation as default

Every patrol is timestamped, every observation written, every shift closed with a compliance report delivered to ownership and AHJ.

03

Florida code fluency

Florida Statute 633, the Florida Fire Prevention Code, and the NFPA standards adopted by reference. Our reporting language matches the marshal’s.

04

Operational, not promotional

We measure ourselves on response time, log integrity, and AHJ acceptance — not slogans. Sentinel works the way a municipal life-safety team works.

§02 · Credentials

Certified.
Insured.
Trained.

Sentinel personnel hold current fire safety and fire extinguisher training credentials through the Hard Hat Training Series — a 360training company. Coverage is backed by general liability insurance and a documentation workflow modeled on municipal life-safety operations.

CertifiedInsuredTrained
Training Record · PR-01Verified · Current
  • Fire Safety and Prevention
    Pedro Ripoll · Hard Hat Training Series · 360training
    Cert #
    000041815852
    Issued
    05 / 15 / 2026
    Status
    Valid 2 years
  • Fire Extinguisher Training
    Pedro Ripoll · Hard Hat Training Series · 360training
    Cert #
    000041815853
    Issued
    05 / 15 / 2026
    Status
    Valid 2 years
Knowledge Base

Fire behavior, classes of fire (A–K), extinguisher selection (PASS), evacuation protocol, and ignition-source control for occupied high-rise buildings.

Code Familiarity

Florida Statute 633, Florida Fire Prevention Code, NFPA 1, NFPA 25, NFPA 72, and NFPA 101 — the standards adopted by Florida AHJs.

Field Experience

Active condominium retrofit posts across South Florida — FACP cutovers, sprinkler riser tie-ins, and ELSS impairment coverage.