• Fire service personnel are running more calls, training continuously, and providing a wider range of services making it nearly impossible to spend time maintaining the training facilities.

• Many buildings are state funded and serve as regional training centers where no clear maintenance responsibility is defined for multiple municipalities.

• Fire service personnel may not be trained to adequately maintain the level of instrumentation found in most burn buildings.

• Third party testing helps to reduce liability while improving the performance of the equipment.

• All equipment should be serviced and tested according to written SOP’s specific to the type of equipment being worked on.

• Turn key maintenance plans will improve safety, reliability and the long term health of the structure.

• Managed maintenance helps to reduce the burden of maintaining compliance with NFPA, federal, and state requirements for live burn training facilities.

• Maintenance records provide documentation of the work performed on the building, including the monitoring and safety systems.

• No wasted time trying to locate and secure individual contractor services.

• Documented testing reports of the temperature monitoring and safety systems where required.