The year 2022 has brought a great deal of positive anticipation to firefighters in Indianapolis. In July, the Indianapolis Fire Department took delivery of a new six-story all-steel Fire Facilities training tower.
“The idea for a dedicated Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) training facility really started gaining momentum about nine years ago,” says Chief of Training Eric Dreiman, with the IFD. “By 2019 the planning intensified. In partnership with the City of Indianapolis, a site was identified and researching of training facility manufacturers got underway.” Prior to this process, IFD had not had its own training facility for forty years.
With input, support and backing from IFD Chief Ernest Malone and Indianapolis Firefighters Local 416, a large-scale training tower with lots of “bells and whistles” was on the wish list for the largest department in the state of Indiana.