Fayetteville Technical Community College unveiled Phase II of the J. Larry Keen Regional Fire Rescue Training Facility on Jan. 7, 2026. The expansion brings two live-fire burn structures, a flashover simulator, and training props designed to prepare emergency responders for situations they’ll face in the field.
Two new structures now stand on site. One is a single-story house. The other is a two-story apartment building. Both join the existing three-story burn building to give trainees hands-on practice in fire suppression, search and rescue, ventilation, firefighter rescue, and incident command management.
A flashover simulator sits adjacent to the apartment burn structure. Flashover, which is the sudden ignition of everything in a room, can occur within seconds and causes a substantial number of firefighter deaths each year…