Help us build the first ever
Cultural Fire Training Center Complex!
The Cultural Fire Management Council is in need of a Cultural Fire Training Center Complex to host training events, provide office space for daily operations, and house our fire engines, tools, and other fire apparatus. Our cultural fire training center will help us have our own building to host the following trainings:
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Cultural Burn Training Exchange (TREX) events for qualified fire fighters to gain hands on experience in cultural/prescribed fire
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Cooperative Burns with neighboring tribes to burn and learn together
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Aspiring Fire Lighters workshops with tribes in the beginning stages of building their fire programs, as well as private land owners interested in burning their own land,
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Community workshops to ensure community members know how to burn safely in today’s changed landscape
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Youth Fire Ecology Camps
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Federally recognized (NWCG) fire fighter classes
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CA Burn Boss training events
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Regional fire symposiums,
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Workshops for university students studying fire ecology
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A learning environment to teach K-12 students enrolled in Klamath-Trinity School District about the benefits of good fire. The training center could also serve as a Resilience Center to provide refuge for community members during severe wildfire smoke events, and a venue to educate communities on home hardening and defensible space.
The CFMC is located in an extremely remote part of northern California, with no hotels or restaurants nearby. This necessitates providing a place for training participants to stay during events that last more than a day and provide food on-site. To date we have been requesting people to bring camp gear, but it is mighty cold during late winter/early spring events, and they often end up bringing their bedding into the meeting/eating space and having to put their things away each morning. A bunkhouse would provide a safe, secure, warm place for training participants to stay during training. The bunkhouse could also be used to house student interns as well as youth during summer fire ecology camps. A commercial kitchen is included in the plans for the training center. The cost of this construction project is approximately $4.1 million, to date we have secured $1.5 million.
Phase 01
Training Center / Fire House
Preliminary Plans: Develop preliminary plans for discussion and conceptual approval, a topographic survey of the site, concept plans for the Cultural Fire Training Center/Fire House.
Site and Utility Designs: Prepare site plans and utility designs for the Training Center/Fire House to include soil testing for septic system capacity, water and sewer designs, utility layouts, geologic report, and all grading, drainage and roadway designs. Also included will be all sediment and erosion control measures.
Building Designs, Bid Package: Finalize designs for the Cultural Fire Training Center/Fire House and prepare a Bid Package for bidding by a Contractor. This will include all construction plans, structural designs, electrical, mechanical and plumbing designs, Title 24 certification for the building. (Note: Depending on funding the Fire House may need to be advertised as a separate bid package.)
Construction Engineering: TVCE will provide assistance and technical support through project completion. This will include all project administration (invoice approvals, response to questions, change orders etc), field inspections, construction staking and materials testing (soil compaction, concrete etc).
Site Work: Grading, building pad, erosion control, water service, drainage system, septic system, propane service, electric service, Driveway/Parking, sidewalks, and security fence/gates.
Construction: Foundation system, wood built structure with hardy board siding, metal roof, propane/plumbing/electric hook up, back up generator, central heating/cooling, exterior lighting, kitchen equipment, and a covered porch. The fire house will require a specialized exhaust system.
Budget
Engineering Cost $200,797.00
Site Work $512,461.00
Construction $2,262,203.00
TOTAL $2,975,462.00
Phase 02
Bunk House
Preliminary Plans: Develop preliminary plans for discussion and conceptual approval, a topographic survey of the site, concept plans for the Bunkhouse.
Site and Utility Designs: Prepare site plans and utility designs for the bunkhouse to include soil testing for septic system capacity, water and sewer designs, utility layouts, geologic report, and all grading, drainage and roadway designs. Also included will be all sediment and erosion control measures.
Building Designs, Bid Package: Finalize designs for the Bunkhouse and prepare a Bid Package for bidding by a Contractor. This will include all construction plans, structural designs, electrical, mechanical and plumbing designs, Title 24 certification for the building.
Construction Engineering: TVCE will provide assistance and technical support through project completion. This will include all project administration (invoice approvals, response to questions, change orders etc), field inspections, construction staking and materials testing (soil compaction, concrete etc).
Site Work: Grading, building pad, erosion control, water service, drainage system, septic system, propane service, electric service, Driveway/Parking and sidewalks.
Construction: Foundation system, wood built structure with hardy board siding, metal roof, propane/plumbing/electric hook up, back up generator, central heating/cooling, exterior lighting, and kitchen equipment.
Budget
Engineering Cost $100,398.00
Site work $256,230.00
Construction $803,713.00
TOTAL $1,160,342.00