Tactical and strategical training through simulation

Used by : FRANCE

To face the risks of its territory, France has defined a national strategy and a unicity of training. That is to say that the employment regulations are formalized at the central level and that all firefighters refer to them.

The Civil Security Application School, an establishment within the Entente Valabre, offers to all French departments, a training for the officers in charge of fighting forest fires. To do so, Valabre decided to equip itself with a simulator that has placed it at the forefront of training centers.

The objectives of using the simulator are multiple.

• First of all, it allows to offer a single training model. All firefighters become interoperable and can be integrated into reinforcement modules. They have the same decision support and operational management tools.

• Then, the simulator allows to reduce costs drastically no more trucks and personnel for training maneuvers.

• Finally, it allows the development of operational procedures: visualization of the propagation, visualization of the stakes and the alea.

Thanks to its flexibility and ease of use, the trainees are confronted with a forest fire fighting situation as many times as necessary to assimilate the essential know-how in theaters of operations: development of a tactic adapted to the situation and the environment, management of human and technical means of fighting, repetition of safety measures, ...

In the course of a day, the trainees are confronted with a large number of professional situations.

Finally, this modern tool can be delocalized and support training in remote departments or foreign countries. It simply requires computers, an internet connection and adapted trainers.

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