Del Valle Training Center
Los Angeles County Fire Department
The Fire Department of Los Angeles County has five
training sites: the department headquarters and command center on Eastern Avenue,
known as “the Hill” (an area that is also the Sheriff's command center);
an east County training center in Pomona, used for recruit training; a north
County training site in Lancaster, with the county's only
active live fire tower; a classroom site in La Quinta; and the Del Valle Training
Center, near Castaic, the largest and most diversified fire training prop site
in the LA region.
Del Valle is located on a hill top and uses 160 acres of land that
the county bought from Unocal in 1984. Much of the focus of Del Valle
is technical rescue training. There are industrial props (including
a portion of an oil
refinery), vehicle accident props(including propane-powered
bus collisions and a collapsed
building prop (detail)),
concrete
slab cutting props, shoring
training props, confined
space rescue props (detail),
and other urban
search and rescue facilities. There is also a hazmat
training area with railcars and a chemical
storage building, and a fire
extinguisher training area. |
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