Summit Fire & Security
The Firm
Summit Fire & Security is a subsidiary of SFP Holding, Inc., which trades as Summit Companies and is run from Mendota Heights, Minnesota. By its own account the business traces to 1999 and now operates as a holding company. Its subsidiaries, among them Summit Fire Protection, Summit Fire & Security, Summit Fire National Accounts, and Summit Fire Consulting, deliver design, installation, inspection, maintenance, monitoring, and consulting from locations across 37 states.
The growth is acquisition, dated one release at a time in its own newsroom. The first half of 2026 alone carries IFS Fire & Safety in Corpus Christi, a 35-year-old family firm doing extinguishers, kitchen suppression, hydrostatic testing, and marine work. It also carries Commercial Fire Protection and Commercial Alarm & Detection in Mount Vernon, Washington, taken in through its Performance Systems Integration arm, and three New England companies at once out of Attleboro, Massachusetts. The pattern is a family-owned inspection-and-testing book folded into the nearest regional branch.
The platform is itself a traded asset, which is the part a searcher should hold onto. Its own announcement of August 2025 records the sale of a majority stake to BDT & MSD Partners, with founder Quint Rubald and CEO Jeff Evrard staying on as shareholders; the same page notes an earlier stretch under BlackRock Long Term Private Capital. A shop sold into Summit is being sold into a company that is being sold.
For a fire-protection searcher this changes the read of the trade. Pye-Barker is not the only national bidder, and in the Pacific Northwest, New England, and the Gulf Coast Summit is the one showing up. The counter is the same either way: what both are buying is a dense book of recurring inspection contracts, and a buyer who can hold and grow that book is competing for the same asset rather than against the acquirer's balance sheet. Read again in September 2026: fifteen purchases the registry lacked, one a Pacific Northwest company of nearly five hundred people, every release printing an effective day the rows carry; the item pages refuse a browser's name and answer a reader's own. The releases since June are branch openings and one Texas sprinkler contractor in September.
What It Buys
Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Family-owned fire alarm, sprinkler, and extinguisher shops bought into a branch network across 37 states, the second national bidder a fire-protection searcher meets beside Pye-Barker.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
18 deals traced to announcements by Summit Fire & Security, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Casteel Automatic Fire Protection, Inc. · September 1, 2026
A Houston sprinkler contractor with Amarillo, Austin and Lubbock offices, founded in 1979, bought as an asset purchase.
- Noremac Sprinkler Corporation, Cameron & Davis Fire Protection Engineering, and North Atlantic Fire & Safety Corporation · June 23, 2026
Three Attleboro, Massachusetts firms: sprinkler design and install, fire engineering, and inspection.
- Commercial Fire Protection and Commercial Alarm & Detection · June 3, 2026
Family-owned Mount Vernon, Washington firms doing sprinkler and suppression ITM in the North Puget Sound.
- Micronet Technology · April 7, 2026
A Pearland, Texas fire alarm inspection, installation and monitoring company.
- HTH Automatic Sprinkler · February 26, 2026
A Goshen, Connecticut sprinkler installation, inspection and service company.
- IFS Fire & Safety, Inc. · February 19, 2026
A 35-year Corpus Christi family firm: extinguishers, kitchen suppression, and Gulf Coast marine work.
- Fire Alarm Specialty Design, LLC · January 21, 2026
A Connecticut fire alarm, extinguisher, security and nurse call company, no city printed.
- Florida State Fire Equipment Inc. · December 4, 2025
An Orlando extinguisher, pre-engineered suppression and exit lighting company.
- Fire Fighter, Inc. and Fire Fighter - Lakeland, Inc. · November 20, 2025
Two Florida suppression equipment and extinguisher companies in Land O' Lakes and Lakeland, bought together.
- Foos Fire, Inc. · October 28, 2025
A Long Island sprinkler, alarm and extinguisher company, bought alongside an investment in its New York affiliate.
- Performance Systems Integration (closing) · August 21, 2025
A Pacific Northwest fire and life safety company of nearly 500 employees, closed after regulatory approval.
- Hope Fire Extinguisher Services, Inc. · August 20, 2025
A Texarkana, Texas alarm, extinguisher, suppression, sprinkler and monitoring company.
- Total Life Safety, LLC · August 12, 2025
A Cincinnati fire alarm, extinguisher, kitchen suppression and backflow company, effective three days before its post.
- Safeco Alarm Systems, Inc. · July 23, 2025
A Kingston, New York fire alarm, security, access control and monitoring company.
- Hy-Test, Inc. · June 18, 2025
A Christiansburg, Virginia hydrostatic testing, extinguisher and suppression company.
- Texas Fire & Sound, Inc. · June 11, 2025
A fire detection, sprinkler and suppression company with Garland, Fort Worth and Houston locations.
- Fire Safety Sales Company Inc. · April 16, 2025
A family-owned Santa Fe, New Mexico fire protection company founded in 1974.
- Alta Protection Services, LLC · March 26, 2025
An Ashland, Ohio sprinkler, alarm and nurse call contractor for healthcare and senior living, effective two days before its post.