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County begins planning for new emergency‑services training center after chiefs flag unusable burn building
Summary
Fire chiefs and county staff briefed the public safety committee on July 22 about an aging Pier Road training site that no longer supports live burn training; staff reviewed other counties’ costs and recommended developing a county proposal and funding plan, with early planning estimates in the $3–4 million range.
Tompkins County officials said on July 22 they will pursue a planning process to replace the county’s aging fire training facility after chiefs said the burn building can no longer be used for live‑fire training.
Justin Van, who briefed the committee, described the existing site — a Pier Road facility used under a city partnership — as lacking safe live‑burn capability (the burn building is largely concrete and is no longer safe to burn in), classroom capacity, storage, decontamination space and…
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