Brayton Fire Training Field

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Brayton Fire Training Field is a 120 acre (496,000 m²) facility in College Station, Texas where firefighters come from all over the world to train in high-rise rescue, aircraft firefighting, passenger train emergency response, structural collapse/heavy rescue and other mass-casualty emergencies. The facility is the largest in the United States and includes full-scale buildings, towers, tanks, industrial plant structures and a ship that are used during life-like training simulations. The annual Texas Fire Training Schools draw more than 4,000 firefighters and emergency workers to the field each summer for a week of intensive, hands-on training. The site also contains "Disaster City," a mock city with numerous full-scale training props, and the Emergency Operations Training Center, a part of the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC).