West Harrison Fire Training Center?

[FF402 133]

Can someone tell me more about the West Harrison FD training center that's on EMTBravo.com?

What does the building feature, where is it, what other props and facilities are on site? Can you burn in it? And is it going to be open to other departments in the area?

The building looks great, good luck with it!

[JBJ1202 27]

This facility is located at the old Nike missile base on Park Lane. It features a class A burn building, roof simulator, and pad for extrication and car fire drills. The Harrison DPW and the HPD shooting range is also located at this site.

Edited July 10, 2006 by JBJ1202

[Guest fire42rescue]

theres no way its located next to the harrison dpw cause there is no room around that area or the shooting range

[HFD750 6]

theres no way its located next to the harrison dpw cause there is no room around that area or the shooting range

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Well it is located right next to the up town DPW site which is the NIKE base and yes there is a shooting range for HPD also located there. If you know of the NIKE base there is plenty of room for all this and more. Were you thinking of the downtown DPW site off Harrison Ave?

[jklam3 10]

Harrison Dpw has two locations one in downtown and the other is at the nike base where the training center is

[SQDBOSS 6]

Our training facility was officially dedicated today, but not officially "christened" yet!! The building does sit on Town property located on Park Lane. This property was used by the government years ago guring the Cold War Era. The property to my understanding did contain actual NIKE missiles. Upon removal of said missiles, the government willed the Fire Department the land for training purposes. The property was used by the Police ( Outdoor Range) as well as Towns' FD's (West Harrison, Harrison, and Purchase). the FD"s had a 1 story block building that lord knows seen it share of FIRE!! In 1997 or so the building became inoperable for safety reasons and was razed. With the development of the "woods" around the Nike base into million dollar homes, a need for new and improved water towers were developed on the property to serve the new populace of this section of our district, with talk of turning the remainder of the property into a recreation facility, an ex-chief "pestered" the town (thanks, Jerry!) into not forgetting the Fire Dept. and constantly reminding officials OF who was actually deeded the property. the Nike Base became a hot topic between the Town of Harrison and my Department, BUT in the long run a "happy" median was met with the West Harrison Fire Department receiving approximately 5 acres of land on the NIKE Base. The Police Dept. received property for their Outdoor range as well as trailers for personnel, and at this time the remaining property belongs to the DPW for a variety of functions. As stated, our building sits towards the back of the property and contains a 3 1/2 story training facility. The building does contain a "burn" room on the ground floor, and (2) roof simulators. There is a stand-pipe run for to simulate "commercial" and multiple rooms to conduct search and FAST drills. There is currently a concrete pad to perfrom vehicle work ( extrication / burn ) as well as (2) functioning hydrants. We our currently exploring upgrades in the next year that would include an additional burn room on the upper floors, as well as "movable" walls. All in all, alot of hard work was entered into the entire project by a number of people and for that I say thanks boys!!!

[201/65 94]

price tag?

[SQDBOSS 6]

The building cost (approximate) is $420's !

[WAS967 97]

Two sites of interested related to the hisotry of the Nike Battery NY-09 site:

http://www.geocities.com/roynagl/nikesite.htm

http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NY09.html