The training tower is a seven-story apartment building designed to train firefighters for operations in high-rise buildings.
A fire escape rises to the roof, with a four-story exterior stairway as another feature of the building. The interior stairway is open-tread galvanized steel, which allows for quick water drainage, better sunlight penetration, and vision from one floor to the next. A complete and working standpipe system is on every floor, along with a dumbwaiter shaft in the center of the building. The Fourth floor apartment is a “live burn module.”
The windows are operable but covered with steel allowing for a smoke and heat condition to quickly develop.
High rise hose operations, ground ladders, aerial ladder operations, and search and rescue are just a few of the many types of fire and rescue scenarios that are taught and practiced in the tower.
A safety net is located on the north side of the building as a safety backup for firefighters repelling from the windows or roof.
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