COUNCIL BLUFFS – The Council Bluffs Fire Department will be taking its training to a new level.
The department is introducing virtual reality to its training program after it recently entered into an agreement with Air Methods.
Air Methods is an air medical service that has an educational program called Ascend which offers in-person and virtual reality programs in order to provide advanced training.
Capt. Daniel Morse said the virtual reality portion of the training will allow the department to practice in situations they otherwise would not be able to simulate. It creates a wider expanse of training, allowing for better preparation in any scenario.
“It creates a different environment for our people to look at situations in a different way they go in,” Morse said. “It’s immersive, it’s a way to recreate situations that we can’t do in real life and just give them another opportunity to make some good clinical decision-making processes out of it.”
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The department will also be participating in a two-day advanced airway training. Morse said that airway is a difficult skill to master.
“This is bringing in two days of, ‘Hey, when this doesn’t work, what are your backup options?’” Morse said. “It’s throwing different techniques and scenarios at the guys to make them better at what they’re already doing.”
Morse said the goal is to challenge the firefighter — allowing them to “fail in training, so that way we learn from our mistakes and we’re better out in the field.”
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