Palm Beach County Fire Rescue

The complex, located at 405 Pike Road, includes multiple classrooms and conference rooms, a 6-story training tower, a 2+1⁄2-story Class A burn building, an emergency vehicle driving course, an extrication training area, Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) props, a 10-acre lake for drafting training, and a field of various full-scale liquefied petroleum (LP) gas props.

The station, which is located near the center of the airport grounds, is home to 13 pieces of specialized firefighting equipment.

[20] The Trauma Hawk program, established in November 1990, replaced the use of Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office helicopters to medevac critically injured patients to area hospitals.

[20] At the Trauma Hawk Station, located at the south-west corner of Palm Beach International Airport, the department has two Sikorsky S-76C helicopters.

[21] The air ambulances are identically equipped and can carry two patients each and up to four medical attendants if needed.

[20] In 2023, the first of two Leonardo AW169 helicopters was delivered, intended to replace the existing S-76C's, which will remain in service throughout the transition as flight teams and mechanics undergo specialized training.

Areas of training include:[26] In the 1980s, Palm Beach County became the second in the nation to implement an enhanced 911 phone system, which provides critical information regarding the location of the caller to the 911 operator.

The dispatch center, known as the Alarm Office, processes all incoming calls and operates multiple radio channels.

Investigators are also members of the Palm Beach County Bomb/Arson Task Force and are all professionally qualified to provide expert witness testimony in both criminal and civil cases.

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