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Friday, November 6, 2009

Grant Funds Fire Inspection VR Training

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Wilson (N.C.) Fire/Rescue Services a $684,000 fire prevention and safety grant to produce an advanced training program for North Carolina fire inspectors using virtual-reality software. After pilot testing, the software program will be distributed free of charge to 2,500 fire departments nationwide. Wilson Fire/Rescue is working with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, the International Code Council and Delmar Publishing to build the training package, which will employ “synthetic environments” for the major occupancies identified in the ICC Fire Code. The virtual-reality component of the training will be developed by Reality ...

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