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ir NEWS The Battalion I 3.4.15 3 Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION The Brayton Fire Field prepares first responders for disaster situations, with simulated fires and other incident recovery scenarios. The 2015 spring training hosted about 500 students, many from other states or countries. FIRE SCHOOL CONTINUED Mike Wisby, associate division director for the Emergency Services Training Institute, which operates Brayton, said the school was established in 1930 with 196 students from 76 Texas cities and towns. Today the school sees 45,000 students per year from across the globe. There are also satellite stations through out the world, bumping the total number of people trained by TEEX to 80,000 annually. Wisby said TEEX, which includes the fire school along with specialized first response, has taught first responders who helped civil ians in events like the Bastrop fires, Boston Marathon bombing and the London subway bombings. While not the largest in the world by size, Wisby said the university-based fire field is the largest in amount of equipment. The rigs, called props, focus on both municipal, includ ing home and commercial businesses and in dustrial fires. Safety and teamwork are highly stressed. Wisby said multiple instructors watch from the sidehnes during a simulation, ready to step in if something looks off about the simulation. The students learn to communicate either through hand signals or verbal cues. “They’re having to learn how to work as a team,” Wisby said. “They have to learn how to move. We call it, ‘Teaching you how to dance.’” Scheffer said safety is highly stressed in his classes. “The number one priority in all incidents — whether it’s hazmat, fire, wreck — is life safety and it starts with your safety first and we want to make sure you do your job as safely as possible,” Scheffer said. To run the fire school, Wisby said facili tators pump more than a million gallons of water per day. However, the water is drained into storage tanks to be recycled and reused. Most of the fuel used is E3, and the fire school uses about a million gallons per year of the flammable liquid fuel. “That fuel is blended for us by ConocoPhil- lips in Borger, Texas, up in the Panhandle,” Wisby said. “They will tank truck that to us, we use it in the tanks and that’s what we use out here. You get a really good fire, just like gasohne or diesel burning, but you don’t get the smoke. It’s a low-smoke fuel developed just for us.” Scheffer said TEEX has both industrial or municipal props. “The industrial props are extremely real istic,” Scheffer said. “Those are probably the most realistic industrial burning props there are in the world. As far as the municipal side of it, when you’re dealing with more structural fire fighting, the facilities again are out of this world. They’re built with integrity to last a long time and they allow us to do many dif ferent scenarios.” With these props, Wisby said the facility is constantly updating and creating new simula tions for training. At the moment, they are installing a new prop — a four-car train de railment. “These rail cars have been sitting up in Bry an on the siding,” Wisby said. “They’ve been donated to us by Burlington Northern. We’ve now started moving them out here. We’re go ing to stack these up in a big train derailment and then we’re going to set it on fire.” Chief Robert Moore, director of the ESRI, said the week is going well so far, even with the weather deviations that are common dur ing the spring. Moore said this may be ben eficial for the students, as it prepares them for scenarios in any weather. “Firefighting doesn’t stop due to weather,” Moore said. “It gives you some good train ing because you do some things a bit different depending on the weather.” While incidents do not happen regularly, Wisby said some people have lost an eyebrow if they weren’t in the correct position. An other concern is heat stress, and there are signs posted throughout the facility reminding stu dents to drink water and stay hydrated. The training school has a broader focus than simply fire fighting, Moore said. It is an all-hazard facility, including training in EM tech, hazardous materials, rescue opera tions and management. Wisby said students can also be trained in rescue operations, other types of natural disaster incidents, as well as the management side of handling an incident. 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