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SFFD Division of Training

Training facility

SFFD Division of Training (training facility, run by the Fire Department): $275,000 paid to contractors for work here, $513.9M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,054 employees on the payroll, 5 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The Fire Department's Division of Training has spent decades in more than one place. The department's annual report of the early 1970s lists it at 2310 Folsom Street under an assistant chief, one of the divisions on the organisation chart beside Fire Prevention and Equipment; the Fire Commission's journal of proceedings from 1975 names its chief and files its accident reports, down to a preventable collision involving a Division of Training pumper. Its structural problem is stated plainly in a Budget Analyst management audit put before the Finance Committee: the department's training and education functions were spread across the Division of Training, the EMS Academy section and the EMS in-service training section, and that fragmentation hindered integration of fire suppression and emergency medical training. The department said it supported consolidating everything under the Division of Training's name — but only once a common training facility was available, instead of the three separate training locations then in use. The division reports monthly to the Fire Commission on what it has done, and its recruit training captain has brought matters before the commission in public comment. The facility now stands on Treasure Island. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.

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Grounded summary

The Fire Department's Division of Training has spent decades in more than one place. The department's annual report of the early 1970s lists it at 2310 Folsom Street under an assistant chief, one of the divisions on the organisation chart beside Fire Prevention and Equipment; the Fire Commission's journal of proceedings from 1975 names its chief and files its accident reports, down to a preventable collision involving a Division of Training pumper. Its structural problem is stated plainly in a Budget Analyst management audit put before the Finance Committee: the department's training and education functions were spread across the Division of Training, the EMS Academy section and the EMS in-service training section, and that fragmentation hindered integration of fire suppression and emergency medical training. The department said it supported consolidating everything under the Division of Training's name — but only once a common training facility was available, instead of the three separate training locations then in use. The division reports monthly to the Fire Commission on what it has done, and its recruit training captain has brought matters before the commission in public comment. The facility now stands on Treasure Island.

Built from: 5 archive documents, city budget data — no outside knowledge added.
$275,000
paid to contractors for work here

600 Avenue M · City-owned · 5,040 sq ft · 2 buildings on site · District 6 · City Facilities registry

What public money did here
Paid to contractors for work here$275,000
Swinerton BuildersFY2026$275,000

What the City actually paid, across 1 contractor. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.

Run by the Fire Department, whose whole-department budget is $513.9M across 2,054 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.

In the archive
  • The department's annual report placing the division at 2310 Folsom Street on its organisation chart.

    Annual report
    Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans

4 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.

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