The Milton City Council has awarded a $165,000 contract to build a mobile firefighters’ training facility – a smaller effort than the stationary structure proposed a year ago, but which officials said still meets the training needs of the Fire Department.
Bayne Development Group LLC submitted the lowest bid of four for the project. The trainer essentially consists of a 48-foot container on wheels, outfitted to simulate a live structure fire.
Last year, Milton awarded a $440,320 contract to Bayne to build a stationary fire-training facility on city-owned land at the edge of Birmingham Park, across from the Fire Department headquarters in Station No. 43. However, the city did not pursue the project after it learned of a deed restriction on the land that precluded that use.
Milton currently sends firefighters to training centers outside the city – the Alpharetta-Roswell facility on Hembree Road, and in Holly Springs in Cherokee County.
Those facilities are used for several levels of certification testing, advanced fire training for new recruits, and the 18 hours of “facility training” each firefighter is required to have every year, Fire Chief Robert Edgar said in a memo to the council.
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