Other Facilities
The Val Jahnke Training Facility is the Houston Fire Department training facility. As of 1988 the City of Houston Firemen's Training Academy is a complex of several scattered buildings, all made of concrete that is exposed and poured-in-place. It is in proximity to the Garden Villas subdivision. It was built in 1967 by Jenkins Hoff Oberg Saxe. Stephen Fox of Cite said that the "tough-looking complex" is "tartling to come upon unexpectedly." The publication Progressive Architecture said that it is "a landscape that may look straight out of the TV series Star Trek." Fox said that the drill tower and the fire building, the latter of which was singed in 1988, "decidedly stand out."
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