Regional
Training Center
Ventura County Fire Department
The Ventura County Fire Department's main training center is
located at Camarillo Airport, a Cold War era coastal defense
Air Force Base. The site has several
significant structures for rescue training, fire-fighting training, and hazardous
material response training. These
facilities include several climbing and rappelling props,
including a five
story tower (for urban search and rescue); an elaborate
confined space rescue tunnel network; two simulated roof
structures (padlock
breaking area, roof
detail, door
props ) ; and an electrical
transmission system prop.
The hazardous material training area is especially advanced, and
is used for training by fire departments and law
enforcement agencies from within and from outside Ventura County. There are several
hazardous tanker and rail
car accident and spill props; an industrial
tank farm leak prop area; and a simulated
methamphetamine lab, built inside a
shipping container, and situated in a miniature
orange grove. |
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