| The All-Risk Training Center represents Rancho Cucamonga’s commitment to the community’s safety. The design reflects this commitment and involvement with the community by incorporating transparency. Views into the building and past the building to the training areas allow for citizens to participate in their safety. The office areas not only look towards the mountain views which dominate the landscape, but also face the street to reinforce the idea that their leaders are accessible and accountable.
The All-Risk Training Center’s intent is to serve the public safety community at a regional level, making the facilities available to adjacent fire and police departments as well as community colleges in the area. The center includes facilities for hands-on experience spaces for teaching theory and concepts. Physical conditioning and testing is supported in the new center with a fitness center and locker rooms on site. The fitness center will also be made available to city employees to promote healthy lifestyles.
The All-Risk Training Center will be built on the same site as the existing Jersey Station 4, and one of the main project challenges the design team faced was fitting all the programs into the existing site while keeping the fire station operational during construction. Water usage on the site is also a challenge with training activities that use 30,000 gallons of water per minute. The team is developing a drainage solution for firewater by reusing the existing water storage tanks on site, with the goal of reusing the water as much as safely possible.
The entrance to the All-Risk Training Center will feature a 36-ft-tall steel beam artifact from the World Trade Centers. The beam is part of the World Trade Center steel program, whose goal is to take steel recovered from the World Trade Center site and donate it to cities, towns, firehouses and museums across the nation and the world for use in 9/11 memorials. The memorial at the All-Risk Training Center will be installed at the main entrance in front of the new training building. The paving and landscape will lead visitors from the contemplative area to the active training areas, tying the past tragedy with the proactive, prepared actions of our public safety leaders.
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