New protocols at the fireground to remove contaminants are essential, but they don’t complete the job. Designing a proper decon laundry that is compliant with NFPA 1851 guidelines and builds on results from current research is crucial to the health and safety of returning firefighters and to everyone back at the station. Using 3-D and “walk-through” models, see a variety of facilities that treat decon as a flow-through process moving from dirty to clean. The models range in scale from large central stations to small substations to renovations where the process needs to be “shoehorned” in.