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Narrator: Virtual Training in
100 Seconds.

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Shots...

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This is not a game.

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Dispatcher: 315. Copy you called.
314 backup. Shots...

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Narrator: It's serious training
for responders

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who, any day, could face real
life active shooters.

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This is virtual training.

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Developed by the DHS Science and
Technology Directorate

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in partnership with the U.S. Army
Simulation and Training Technology Center,

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virtual training enables responders
from different disciplines,

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jurisdictions, agencies and
regions of the country

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to train together 24/7 without
traveling or disrupting their normal routines.

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Participating responders play themselves,

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using equipment and tactics
they're familiar with.

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They operate in accurately
detailed environments

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and face realistic situations from
active shooters to firebombings.

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The disciplines work together,

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police protecting firefighters
and paramedics from attack

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while fire and medical personnel
battle blazes

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and aid injured officers
and civilians.

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It's training that's difficult
to stage in any other way.

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Officer: It takes a lot to go out and
recreate something like this on the street,

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but to bring individuals to a
controlled environment, to a room

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and then create this chaos
in this virtual world,

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enforces the training, the thought
process and the conversations.

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Participant: It could potentially
help with the coordinated response

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between fire and EMS and
law enforcement together.

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We don't have a chance to put these
large scale operations together

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and work them in real life.

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Narrator: Virtual training will
be available free of charge

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to responder organizations who
are free to modify the tool

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to meet local and regional needs.

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For more information, visit
us on FirstResponder.gov