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Groundbreaking at San
Bernardino Regional Emergency Training Center
Sewell Training Center2824 East W St. Bldg. 302 San Bernardino, CA 92408 Ph: 909.382.5405 Fx: 909.382.5415 The San Bernardino County Fire Department Training Division combines one of the biggest and best training facilities with an arsenal of superior training programs that make it second to none in Southern California. We offer a variety of specialized programs at all skill levels, from entry-level to top executives. Courses can be conducted at our state of the art facilities, or delivered in the field in subject areas of Municipal Firefighting, Wild land Firefighting, Incident Command and Management, Hazardous Materials, Rescue, Emergency Medical, Urban Search and Rescue, Air Crash Rescue and Firefighting, Emergency Operations Center Training, Confined Space, Auto Extrication, and Flammable Gas and Liquid Firefighting. The live drill facility offers hands on live fire, collapsed buildings, tunnel systems, and hazardous materials, live actions props as well as a full size 727 aircraft. This live action training offers lessons that will not be forgotten.The Training Division has delivered more than 100,000 hours of training this fiscal year. We have trained fire service personnel from all over Southern California as well as law enforcement, airport personnel, district attorneys, military personnel, hospitals, schools, U.S. Customs, and many more. The division includes a highly trained and specialized cadre of State Certified Instructors including two State Certified Master Instructors.The division maintains the training and certification for all of the Countys Fire Department personnel and has established new certification levels in wild land training and implements all mandated State and Federal Training. This division also provides certified Emergency Scene Safety Officers for all second alarm or greater incidents as well as for a Type II Federal Management Team.
The department drill facilities provide the only State Certified Fire Control III utilizing fixed facility propane fueled live fire with class "A" combustible augmentation. The department also provides FAA Part 139 training in Fire Control 5 (State of California) Aircraft Fire Fighting and provides annual certification training for airports up to index C and is working with the F.A.A. through a J.P.A. formed with San Bernardino Valley College District, San Bernardino City Fire, and San Bernardino County Fire to build a state of the art air crash rescue 7.5 million dollar training facility. Annual U.S.A.R. and Haz-Mat drills are held at the training center for the County of San Bernardino. The Training Division is also involved in the Explorers Academy and with Y.E.S. Camp, which benefits the youth of San Bernardino County. Also held at the training center is Crafton Hills College Fire Academy, which utilizes the drill ground and the staff at the training center. The department supplies the Academy Operations Officer and provides three fire academies a year. The academy runs 10 weeks, 480 hours each. This is a map to Sewell Training Center |