Also located at the Fire Training Center is a 4,300 sq. ft. Industrial/Structural Fire Training Building. This four-story, building is designed to have four active burn rooms. The building initially contains two "fireplaces" for industrial trainees of the Alaska oil industry. It secondarily supports residential fire training for attic, kitchen and living space fires. Additional "fireplaces" will provide for structural fire training.

A unique feature of the building is that the training rooms and equipment can be allowed to freeze with the ambient air temperature during winter training exercises to simulate conditions found on the North Slope of Alaska during firefighting operations. When training is completed for the day, the building is heated, ice melted, drained and cooled again to allow similar training the next training cycle.

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