The North Las Vegas Fire Department has dedicated a regional training center featuring Southern Nevada’s only integrated ambulance simulator. Its first 13 recruits are scheduled to start academy training on October 19.
Inside the new campus, crews can rehearse medical calls in the cramped rear compartment of an ambulance. The facility is at 1590 W. Brooks Ave., near Martin Luther King Boulevard. It has about 5,200 square feet of indoor training space and roughly six acres of grounds, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Outdoors, a burn box and live-fire training pad give crews space for drills.
The dedication ceremony took place Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown and Mayor Pro Tem Scott Black led the event. City Manager Micaela Moore and Fire Chief Joseph Calhoun also led the dedication.
The first academy class, made up of 13 recruits, is scheduled to begin training Monday, October 19, six days after the dedication. A four-story live-fire tower is planned for early 2027.
The simulator gives recruits and veteran paramedics a confined space to practice emergency care. They can rehearse cardiac monitoring and intravenous lines inside a cabin modeled on an active North Las Vegas rescue unit. The training also covers advanced airway intubation. Pediatric trauma management is part of the program as well.
The North Las Vegas Fire Department says the simulator will be the only training facility of its kind in Southern Nevada. It reproduces the rear compartment of an ambulance.
Instructors can change simulated patient vital signs from control stations. The department says the setup lets crews practice life-support procedures in the tight conditions they encounter inside an ambulance.
Calhoun said the simulator lets the department train locally for high-consequence medical calls. The center also supports in-house paramedic triage. Crews can practice life support in a confined cabin and work on rapid emergency vehicle operations.
The campus includes classrooms and an ambulance simulator bay. Apparatus staging grounds occupy part of the six-acre site.
Plans have also been filed for a Tesla Semi service center in North Las Vegas. That is a separate project from the fire training center, which is intended to support emergency-response training as the area develops.
Ground is expected to break later this winter on the next phase, a four-story live-fire tower and search maze targeted for delivery in early 2027. Plans call for natural-gas and Class-A prop burn rooms. Exterior stair towers and standpipe connections are also planned. Breachable ventilation roofs will support multi-story fire drills.
The facility will be available for joint exercises with Metro Police. CCFD will also be able to train there. LVFR is included in the joint-exercise plans.
