Central Islip Fire District

New Training Building at Station 2

The Central Islip Fire District did not have its own training facility, which means that firefighters had to travel outside District to get their required training. After working with the community to pass a bond, the District decided to site a new training tower on the same property as an existing station.

The prefabricated tower is 2.5 stories tall with a rectangular footprint of 49’x 25’. The tower is equipped for various ropes training evolutions and can simulate live fires. The District has future-proofed the tower and can expand over time.

H2M provided site/civil and structural services by surveying the property, calculating the new drainage requirements, and designing the slab-on-grade that the tower sits on. The existing station remained in operation during construction, which required planning how construction equipment could access the site without unnecessary site disturbance.