Work with the Cities of Berkeley and Albany to ensure the East Bay can ramp up emergency responder training and communities are equipped to handle fires and other emergencies.

I look forward to working with the Cities of Berkeley and Albany to ensure our region can ramp up emergency responder training and that our communities are equipped and supported to handle fires and other emergencies.

Simon commits to continue working with local governments to expand emergency responder training and improve preparedness for fires and other emergencies in the East Bay.

Congresswoman Simon Secures Federal Funding for East Bay Regional Fire Training Facility to Keep Region Prepared and Safe | Representative Lateefah Simon
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon recently secured $500,000 in Community Project Funding for the construction of the East Bay Regional Fire Training Facility. This funding will go to the Cities of Berkeley and Albany. Simon said, "I look forward to working with the Cities of Berkeley and Albany to ensure our region can ramp up emergency responder training and that our communities are equipped and supported to handle fires and other emergencies."

Simon publicly reported a concrete funding win tied directly to the Berkeley-Albany fire training facility and reiterated the exact commitment to regional training and emergency readiness.

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Congresswoman Simon Secures Federal Funding for East Bay Regional Fire Training Facility to Keep Region Prepared and Safe | Representative Lateefah Simon
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The agenda packet includes a public safety project list with "Project Fire Training Center Replacement" described as a purpose-built training facility that supports modern fire, rescue, and emergency service training and education and improves operational readiness and long-term emergency response capacity.

Berkeley's official materials show the fire training-center replacement project moving through municipal planning as a concrete emergency-response infrastructure effort.

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Special Agenda Packet - Council
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The City of Berkeley offered a May 6, 2026 in-person training at the Fire Department Training Facility, saying the class would help residents start or join a neighborhood disaster preparedness group and better support each other in emergencies.

Berkeley was actively using its fire training facility for emergency-preparedness classes during the lookback window, showing on-the-ground training activity rather than a stalled or abandoned effort.

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Start a Neighborhood Disaster Preparedness Group
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The June 9, 2026 Berkeley City Council agenda includes a contract for Medical Priority Consultants' Priority Dispatch system covering Medical, Fire, and Police Priority Dispatch systems, with implementation, maintenance, quality assurance tools, and training. That is a concrete step to improve emergency-response and fire-dispatch capability.

Berkeley was actively moving an emergency-dispatch training and software contract through council on June 9, which is a concrete, same-term preparedness action but not full completion of the broader fire-training promise.

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City Council Regular Meeting eAgenda June 9, 2026 | City of Berkeley
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Berkeley's Fire Department says its Office of Emergency Services created neighborhood disaster-preparedness classes offered May 7 and June 10 at the Fire Department's Training Division on Cedar Street, with skills focused on organizing neighbors, fire safety, evacuation planning, and emergency readiness.

Berkeley continued running community preparedness training at the Fire Department Training Division, showing ongoing emergency-readiness work that supports the promise but does not prove the facility build-out is finished.

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Take classes to organize your neighborhood emergency network | City of Berkeley
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The City of Berkeley's Disaster Preparedness Trainings page lists "Community Emergency Response Team (CERT): Fire Safety and Utilities" on June 13, 2026 at the Fire Department Training Facility, 997 Cedar Street.

Within the lookback window, Berkeley still had concrete emergency-response training scheduled at the Fire Department Training Facility, which supports ongoing progress on the Berkeley-Albany preparedness promise but does not show the broader project is finished.

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Disaster Preparedness Trainings | City of Berkeley
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Berkeley's June 9, 2026 council report says the city sought a contract for Priority Dispatch software that includes implementation, training, quality assurance tools, and dispatch modernization for fire and police calls. The report says this work is part of Berkeley's broader dispatch modernization effort and is intended to improve emergency response and training consistency.

Official city paperwork shows a concrete same-term emergency-response modernization step that includes training and quality assurance, which supports the promise but does not prove the broader Berkeley-Albany fire-training effort is complete.

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City Council Report ##-##-####
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Berkeley's disaster-preparedness trainings page lists in-person sessions at the Fire Department Training Facility on June 10 and June 11, 2026, including Growing Your Neighborhood group and CERT: Fire Safety and Utilities at 997 Cedar Street. The page also says most CERT trainings take place at the Fire Department Division of Training.

The city was still actively running emergency-preparedness and fire-safety training at the training facility during the lookback window, which is consistent with progress on the promise but not full completion.

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Disaster Preparedness Trainings | City of Berkeley
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Berkeley's Disaster Preparedness Trainings page says Berkeley Ready trainings are designed by experts from the Fire Department, Office of Emergency Services, and Public Health Division. It lists CERT trainings at the Fire Department Training Facility, 997 Cedar Street, including CERT Organization on July 9, 2026 and July 11, 2026, and Light Search and Rescue on July 18 and July 25. The CERT curriculum includes fire safety, utilities, and light search and rescue.

During the June 11-July 10 lookback window, Berkeley was still running and scheduling emergency-preparedness and CERT classes at the fire training facility. This supports ongoing partial progress but does not show the Berkeley-Albany regional training ramp-up was completed.

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Disaster Preparedness Trainings | City of Berkeley
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The City of Berkeley listed a June 27, 2026 Disaster Preparedness Family Game Day hosted by the Office of Emergency Services and CORE. The event offered hands-on preparedness activities, including a digital fire extinguisher, preparedness games, and access to emergency preparedness staff to help residents prepare households for emergencies.

Berkeley held a lookback-window community preparedness event focused on household disaster readiness and fire-response practice. That advances the community-equipping side of the promise, but it is not proof that the larger regional responder-training facility effort is finished.

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Disaster Preparedness Family Game Day | City of Berkeley
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Berkeley's June 30, 2026 City Council agenda included second-reading ordinances setting FY 2027 tax rates to fund Fire Protection and Emergency Response and Preparedness, Firefighting, Emergency Medical Response and Wildfire Prevention, and emergency medical services. The agenda records first-reading votes as all ayes for these fire and emergency-preparedness items.

Official city action in the lookback window shows Berkeley continuing to fund fire protection, emergency response, wildfire prevention, and emergency medical services. This supports preparedness progress, while not proving the specific Berkeley-Albany training facility build-out or full responder-training ramp-up.

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City Council Regular Meeting eAgenda June 30, 2026 | City of Berkeley
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Berkeley's June 9, 2026 council agenda recommended authorizing a contract with Medical Priority Consultants, doing business as Priority Dispatch, for purchase, implementation, and maintenance of medical, fire, and police priority-dispatch software, including training, quality assurance tools, and ongoing maintenance. The proposed base term began July 1, 2026 and ran through June 30, 2031.

Although the agenda predates the lookback by two days, the proposed emergency-dispatch implementation and training term began inside the lookback window on July 1, 2026. It is concrete emergency-response modernization, but still only partial delivery of the broader Berkeley-Albany fire-training commitment.

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City Council Regular Meeting eAgenda June 9, 2026 | City of Berkeley
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