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ALERT! features news, technology, developments and stories of interest to the emergency response and disaster training community. ETC Simulation, developers of ADMS, the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator, manages its production, and always welcomes story submissions or suggestions.
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Welcome to the 6th issue of ALERT! Emergency Response Training Digest. In this issue we cover the Netherlands Institute for Safety's Simulation Training Award, a new Pennsylvanian ADMS user, and a story on an exciting new technology from the Air Force Research Lab's Fire Research Group. We hope you enjoy.
Best Regards,
Adam McCard
Managing Editor
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Netherlands Institute for Safety wins Award for Serious Gaming & Simulation for Safety
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 NIFV, the Netherlands Institute for Safety recently won an award in a Serious Gaming & Simulation for Safety contest.
The contest was organized on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of Economics and is one of several incentive programs to support innovation in the safety domain. Safety is one of the key topics on the current political agenda and the 25 Netherlands Safety Regions must prepare for all hazards. Training is essential, but realistic training is costly and requires much preparation, especially for multi-agency operations. Additionally, complex incidents cannot be frequently trained realistically.
Over the past past 7 years that NIFV has been using ADMS, they have
developed many 'best-practices' which they infuse into their training
curriculum. NIFV intends to prove that this type of simulation is a
valid training tool for improving professional skills. NIFV's winning plan describes how to prepare the safety regions by creating 'best practices' plans and implementing simulation training in the regions' annual training and exercise plans. Virtual reality simulation like ADMS enables realistic training that is safe, efficient, challenging, non-polluting and cheaper. The contest jury's opinion was that NIFV's plan was thorough and appropriate, and that their ADMS (Advanced Disaster Management Simulator) is a proven system that has a good chance to succeed on a larger scale.
NIFV recently announced singing a contract to provide ADMS Training Support to one of the 25 Regional Fire Brigades for inter-agency training of Fire/Rescue, Emergency Medical Services, Police and City Officials. NIFV will lease a complete set of their NIFV-ADMS simulators to this region for 2 years. NIFV and the Region will cooperate on implementing and improving ADMS.
>More on NIFV
>More on ADMS
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Westmoreland County, PA Contracts Simulation-Based Incident Command Training
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 ETC Simulation just announced the signing of a contract with the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania's Dept. of Public Safety for the provision of Training Support Services for training HAZMAT Fire/Rescue Specialists. ETC Training Staff will deliver to Westmoreland County a portable, 5-station ADMS-COMMAND system and facilitate a series of exercises targeted to enhance response personnel's skills in command, control and coordination with each other and other virtualized organizations like EMS, Police and city officials.
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New Aircraft Fire Fighting Technology from the
Air Force Research Laboratory
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In May, the ARFF (Aircraft Rescue Fire Firefighting) Working Group hosted a workshop at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida called, Technology Today & ARFF. At the conference, the Air Force Research Laboratory - Fire Research Group (FRG) demonstrated an interesting new technology for foam application for ARFF called Ultra-High Pressure (UHP). The Air Force requirement that led to the development of UHP, was for fire trucks that could be easily transported and deployed via C-130 aircraft. In 2002, scientists at the FRG began to research UHP solutions to the issue. Since that time a "First Response Expeditionary" all-terrain vehicle has been developed with a mounted UHP turret system. At the demonstration at the AFRL, firefighters demonstrated UHP on standard P-19 ARFF crash trucks. UHP technology has proven to be over 300% more effective than traditional firefighting agent delivery systems and allows for smaller, leaner trucks to be built with equivalent capability. UHP has begun to be commercialized by Rosenbauer of America. Click the photo above for video footage of the UHP live burn demo at Tyndall Air Force Base. >More on the ARFF Working Group>More on the AFRL |
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