2023 ANNUAL REPORT-FINAL

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EMERGENCY SERVICES

Training Office

The Frederick County Public Safety Training Facility (FCPSTF) is a multiagency ninety-seven-acre training complex, managed by the Division of Fire and Rescue Services. The specially designed props and buildings are capable of supporting fire, rescue, emergency medical services, and law enforcement training requirements. These training props include a Class A Live Fire burn building and a five-story training tower. The training tower offers the ability to perform various training skills on all levels of the building such as multi-level operations, confined space rescue and high angle rescue. Throughout the year, several props were repaired and various upgrades to existing props were completed to expand our training capabilities. In addition to Frederick County agencies, the training center staff and facility continues to support local, regional, and out-of-state fire departments as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST), the Maryland National Guard, the United States Marine Corp Security Company and the University of Maryland, Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute.

The Frederick County Public Safety Facility main building offers five classrooms with one breakout room and houses the Fire Marshal’s Office and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) with a conference room, on the first floor. DFRS continues to collaborate with the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute offering classrooms for regional training and a certified Pearson VUE testing center for students taking National Registry EMT tests. The second floor has a forty-nine-person cafeteria/break area with refrigerators, microwaves, and vending machines. DFRS Headquarters and Training Staff are located on the second floor. The third floor is home to the Division of Emergency Management which consists of offices for Emergency Management and Emergency Communications and houses the primary Emergency Communications Dispatch Center. The Annex Building continues to serve as the primary classroom and office space for Fire Recruit Training. This building also has an EMS lab to support EMT and Paramedic training, a fitness room, locker and shower facilities, a personal protective equipment (PPE) cleaning room that has a commercial PPE gear washer and dryer, as well as an apparatus bay that houses the Engines, Ambulance, and ALS equipment that support training.