About Entrain: Fire Dynamics Trainer
Fire fighting has never been more dangerous.
Modern construction and materials are creating fires that grow faster and hotter than those of a generation ago.
Thanks to improved building codes and better education structure fires are now a low frequency occurrence, but a side effect of this success is that today's firefighters have less experience with structure fires than ever before.
These two factors together have the potential for deadly consequences.
Nothing can replace live, hands-on training for firefighters, it is absolutely critical to their success. But there are fire phenomena that are too dangerous to train with or which require large, expensive props which are costly and not readily accessible to most firefighters.
Entrain: Fire Dynamics Trainer is envisioned as a Virtual Reality tool to give firefighters the extra knowledge they need to fight today's fires, and to supplement existing live fire training with immersive, realistic, accessible, and cost effective fire dynamic scenarios while minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions and materials.
Using data generated with Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) - a world class heat and smoke transport simulation package written by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce - driving a visually realistic room-scale VR simulation, end users will be able to train with flashover or backdraft scenarios that currently are only experienced at active fire scenes at great risk to the firefighter.
