Narrator: Virtual Training in 100 Seconds.
Shots...
This is not a game.
Dispatcher: 315. Copy you called. 314 backup. Shots...
Narrator: It's serious training for responders
who, any day, could face real life active shooters.
This is virtual training.
Developed by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate
in partnership with the U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center,
virtual training enables responders from different disciplines,
jurisdictions, agencies and regions of the country
to train together 24/7 without traveling or disrupting their normal routines.
Participating responders play themselves,
using equipment and tactics they're familiar with.
They operate in accurately detailed environments
and face realistic situations from active shooters to firebombings.
The disciplines work together,
police protecting firefighters and paramedics from attack
while fire and medical personnel battle blazes
and aid injured officers and civilians.
It's training that's difficult to stage in any other way.
Officer: It takes a lot to go out and recreate something like this on the street,
but to bring individuals to a controlled environment, to a room
and then create this chaos in this virtual world,
enforces the training, the thought process and the conversations.
Participant: It could potentially help with the coordinated response
between fire and EMS and law enforcement together.
We don't have a chance to put these large scale operations together
and work them in real life.
Narrator: Virtual training will be available free of charge
to responder organizations who are free to modify the tool
to meet local and regional needs.
For more information, visit us on FirstResponder.gov