Hayward Fire Training Center

Training, as Real as Possible

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Project Location

Hayward, CA

Area

7-acre, 9-building campus

Certification

LEED Silver

Unique features

Fire Station #6, a double-company, two-story fire station

The new Hayward Fire Training Center and Fire Station #6 shapes the future of fire, rescue, and emergency response training and education. Our design provides cutting-edge facilities and training customized to community needs. The approach was to create a facility that was 鈥渁s real as possible,” recreating the unpredictable and high-risk hazards that first responders encounter in the field. This is the most effective way to prepare recruits and in-service personnel for mission-critical duties in the outside world.

Located near Hayward Executive Airport, the new 7-acre, 9-building campus includes an active fire station, classrooms and offices, a new training tower with Class B burn rooms, a simulated Victorian Class A Burn Building, and other facilities to practice urban search and rescue missions. Delivering intense challenges for job-preparedness within a supportive and inclusive learning environment, the design elevates fire service education and prepares the next generation of emergency responders locally, regionally, and beyond.

This new benchmark for fire training centers in America was made possible through a collaborative effort between the city of Hayward, Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, and 海角社区.

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Break room with natural wood cabinets on a back wall behind a high top counter seating area. Multiple tables and seating areas to the right side in front of a hallway with word Classrooms on the wall

Group of fire department trainees in white suits standing in front of fire training equipment surrounded by safety gear

Firefighters standing in a semicircle standing outside of a concrete building with yellow hoses extended on the ground with multiple fire trucks in the image

Firefighters dressed in safety gear standing in front of a fire truck with ladder extended to a concrete building

Two firefighters dressed in safety gear using a chainsaw to cut through a wooden floor

Training

All of Hayward Fire Training Center's live fire and simulation training structures were modeled on actual hazards the Hayward Fire Department identified through a photographic community hazards study.

Training

Transportation

Keeping Us Moving

A decommissioned Bay Area Rapid Transit train car on an elevated BART station track allows firefighters to train for fire suppression and medical emergencies for specialized circumstances involving BART cars on elevated track systems common in the East Bay. Regional transportation props reflect real world hazards in the Hayward area, including aircraft crashes at the Hayward airport, tanker truck hazardous spills on I-880, and aircraft and tanker truck fuel spills on the highway or tarmac.

Firefighters in blue shirts with Hayward Fire Dept. on backs standing in front of a fire truck and building structure listening to instructors in safety gear

Urban Search and Rescue

Dangers Close to Home

Urban Search and Rescue Prop replicates a collapsed concrete parking garage like the collapsed Cypress Structure in the 1989 Loma Prieta EQ. This feature offers multiple training scenarios including confined space, tilt wall, breach panel, trench rescue and collapsed building props so firefighters can practice search and rescue skills necessary to activate following a major earthquake.

Aerial of the Hayward Fire Training facility showing a concrete building structure with mountains and trees in the background

The Burn Building

Context Specific Training

The Class A Burn Building is modeled after Victorian style homes, which in Hayward are often converted into unpermitted apartments.

Hayward fire dept. spraying water on a Victorian style house.

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