Night Owl Safety LLC is a Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office licensed
fire protection firm headquartered in Laredo, Texas, operating under the Night Owl Ops
business group — established March 2021, BBB Accredited
with an A+ rating, and now in its fifth year of continuous operation
across the South Texas border region. The firm operates under license
FEL-B-2777950 and Certificate of Registration ECR-2777954, held by
licensee Francisco Javier Rios, and specializes exclusively in portable fire extinguisher
service — inspection, maintenance, hydrostatic testing, recharge, supply, and
installation — for government, public safety, industrial, and institutional clients.
The work is rooted in NFPA 10, the national standard for portable fire
extinguishers, and enforced under Texas Administrative Code Title 28, Part 1, Chapter 34.
Every cylinder leaves with a color-coded SFMO-compliant service tag, technician
certification number, and chain-of-custody documentation suitable for fire marshal audit,
insurance review, or municipal procurement record.
Track record — multi-municipal & statewide.
Night Owl Safety has built a continuous public-sector footprint across South Texas. The
firm holds an active term contract with the City of Laredo for fire
extinguisher repair and replacement, and from 2021 through 2024 served
as fire extinguisher contractor to the City of El Cenizo and the
City of Rio Bravo, Texas — covering municipal buildings, public
works fleet, and community facilities across two of Webb County’s southern
colonias. From 2025 into 2026, the contract base expanded statewide
with ExxonMobil-branded gas stations across Texas, bringing dispenser-island
extinguisher service, Class K kitchen suppression on c-store grill lines, and
fleet-rated bracketing to retail-fuel sites well beyond the Laredo metro.
Combined with active service across Laredo Fire Department, Laredo Police Department,
Customs & Border Protection facilities, Texas DPS Highway Patrol units, El Metro public
transit, City of Laredo Solid Waste fleet, and the city’s recreation centers and water
utilities, the customer roster spans first responders, public works, retail fuel,
industrial occupancy, and faith and community institutions — the broadest portable-extinguisher
service portfolio in the South Texas market.
Public safety, from the inside out.
Night Owl Safety serves Laredo’s first responders and frontline operators directly:
Laredo Fire Department apparatus, Laredo Police Department
fleet, El Metro public transit, City of Laredo Solid Waste
fleet, and the recreation centers, water utilities, and community facilities Laredo families
depend on every day.
When a Pierce engine rolls out of station — we tagged the extinguisher in the cab.
When a Class K extinguisher tag comes due in a city kitchen — we service the cylinder.
When CBP and DPS units pull a fleet bracket inspection — the heavy-duty mounts came
from our shop. This is not abstract compliance. It is the cylinder that has to work in the
moment a child reaches for the wrong stove dial, the moment an electrical panel arcs in a
treatment plant, the moment a maintenance grinder throws sparks near solvent. Public safety
is built one tag at a time.
Education as service.
Beyond the cylinder, Night Owl Safety produces field reference materials — the PASS
method, NFPA 10 selection guidance, fire watch duty briefings, OSHA-aligned training
programs — distributed at the workplaces it serves. Awareness is the leading
indicator of survival; equipment is the trailing one. We deliver both.
