Harlem-Roscoe Fire

Training Facility

September 18, 2004, the new facility was officially dedicated as the "Oscar Presley Training Facility". The two-story building with a maze of rooms and a 4-story tower is located behind Harlem-Roscoe Fire Station #3 at 13974 Willowbrook Road.

The building can be rapidly filled with smoke. This allows the firefighters to perform search and rescue evolutions over and over again in true smoke conditions they might find in a real fire. A valuable feature is that the walls can also be moved around making new rooms and hallways thus enabling many various scenarios. Tubes, furniture, etc has been added as obstacles.

Three rooms in the building have burn props. One prop on the first floor simulates a fire on a stove complete with rollover onto the ceiling. Another prop in a room on the second floor simulates a bed or couch fire that also has fire rolling onto the ceiling. The third prop is a Class A burn area located on the 3rd floor attic area. Then there are the outside burn props. There is a car and a quad prop. The quad prop has four areas to interchange and simulate propane tank, barrel, above ground storage, and open fire. Both props can be remotely fired up and then firefighters practice proper attack evolutions with charged hose lines. With all the props, the evolutions can be repeated over and over again.

There is also a landing on the roof that can be used for rope rescue training. There are two outside ladders. One takes you from the gound to the roof platform and the other is a caged ladder (OSHA safety ladder). Inside there is an elevator shaft and room for confined space training. And there is also two overhead chop-outs in the attic for ventilation training.

 

Training Facility 'Virtual Tour'

The yellow figures in the tour scenes represent positions that you can move to. Once a tour scene appears, place your mouse in the scene, click hold & drag the mouse to move the scene. You can look up, down, and all around. By clicking on a yellow figure in the scene you will move  to that position. Follow the figures to explore the facility.
Click on a tour scene number to go directly to that position

Scenes from the tower in use...

The propane fed props can be 'fired' up time and time again. Upper left, the prop on the first floor simulates a stove fire complete with a ceiling rollover. Upper right, A car prop outside can simulate fires in the trunk, interior, engine, or all three areas. Bottom two pictures show two different types of fuel tanks that can be put on the quad prop to simulate propane tank fires or large fuel storage tank fires.

The building can quickly be filled with smoke for simulated smoke and rescue training. A maze can be configured thoughout the building for search and rescue technique training evolutions.