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TRAINING FACILITIES
BUILDINGS AND PROPS
The Northeastern Illinois Public Safety Training academy offers a one-of-a-kind cooperative approach to emergency preparedness and response. Located on 20 acres in Glenview, Illinois, NIPSTA delivers programs and services that address the public safety needs and professional standards of local government and private industry.
NIPSTA boasts many specialized indoor and outdoor buildings and props in a training environment that is unlike any other in the region. Facility Use by NIPSTA Members is available upon request. Facility Use by Others is available upon request.
NIPSTA Buildings and Props include:
| Education Center |
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This bright, clean, learning environment includes classrooms and meeting rooms of various sizes - each equipped with essential educational equipment. A tactical room offers opportunities for hands-on training exercises. Food and beverage service is provided on-site. Shower facilities are also available. |
| Field Training Facility |
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A 32,000 square-foot building, formerly utilized as a military aircraft hangar, now accommodates a wide range of scenario-based training exercises. This three-story structure offers an ideal setting for year-round training that requires the use of specialized equipment, such as the save-our-own prop and roof ventilation and rescue simulator. |
| Driver Training Pad |
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This 190,000 square-foot concrete surface has been specifically designed to improve vehicle operator performance. Drivers of emergency vehicles (police cars, motorcycles, fire engines, ambulances, dump trucks, snow plows) and non-emergency vehicles (trucks, automobiles, buses) gain valuable experience in a safe, controlled environment - either in the daytime or at night under the lights. |
| Technical Rescue Training Prop |
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This four-story structure is comprised of more than one dozen land-sea shipping containers arranged in a horseshoe design around a structural steel anchor system. This prop is used for multiple training scenarios, including laddering, rappelling, confined space, rescue, SCBA awareness, building searches, and room clearing. |
| Emergency Entry Prop |
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The prop sustains multiple training evolutions involving Class A live fires and less lethal weapons. Other applications include search and rescue, rapid intervention, breaching doors and walls, and basement-level entry exercises. |
| Crime Scene Training Laboratory |
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This room hosts educational programs that enhance the ability of local law enforcement personnel to identify and collect crime scene evidence. The training also improves the performance of state and local crime laboratories by reducing the time, labor, and expense required to process and analyze forensic evidence. |
| Room Clearing and Rescue Prop |
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A modular training environment with movable walls that provide flexibility for dynamic instruction in search and rescue, tactical entry, breaching doors and walls, room clearing, Simunition weapons, and victim rescue. |
| Driver Training Simulators |
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The two Simulators provide training in situation awareness, risk analysis, forward/backward maneuvers, decision-making, emergency reaction and avoidance, and conscientious equipment operation through a professionally-developed library of scenarios. A year-round curriculum benefits a diverse audience of new and experienced drivers representing police, fire, EMS, public works, and private industry. |
| Railroad Training Prop |
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This one-of-a-kind prop offers scenario-based training in a passenger car, in a tank car, and at a railroad crossing. Exercises enhance the skills of specialized teams responding to incidents involving hazardous materials, terrorism, and passenger evacuation and rescue. |
| Vertical Training Prop |
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A four-story enclosed staircase with a fifth-story roof serves as a venue for fire attack exercises, rapid intervention drills, hose advances, laddering, rappelling, and other high-rise operations. The specially-designed third floor allows for live fire training in a safe, controlled environment. It is fueled by a clean-burning source. It accommodates Class B live fires, SCBA awareness, save-our-own exercises, and flashover simulations. |
| Structural Collapse Prop |
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This indoor debris pile is uniquely engineered to replicate a residential structural collapse. Rescue tools on-site make possible a variety of training opportunities, including shoring, breaching, confined space, canine searches, and listening device exercises. |
| Extrication Training Prop |
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This outdoor debris pile is uniquely engineered to replicate a building collapse or another mass casualty incident that requires technical rescue. A variety of training opportunities are available, including shoring, breaching, and confined space exercises. |
| Model City |
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This tabletop model city allows students to enhance their ability to manage emergency situations. Three 4' x 8' tabletop simulators replicate property lots and roadways with dozens of buildings creating five different neighborhood settings: commercial, industrial, heavy manufacturing, urban, and suburban. Scale model emergency vehicles allow students to employ tactical and strategic decision-making and the use of two-way radios are included for first responders to improve their verbal communications skills during high-stress scenarios. |
| Fire Alarm & Sprinkler Prop |
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This training room is dedicated to enhancing the understanding of and familiarity with sprinkler systems and alarm systems. A variety of mock-ups provide firefighters, inspectors, installers, and engineers with hands-on experience in the design and operation of the systems. |
| Hazardous Materials Prop |
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This mobile trailer prop supports hazardous materials education and awareness by providing hands-on access to chlorine kits, a training cylinder, and a railroad tank car rooftop simulator. |
| Smoke Maze Trailer |
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This mobile unit enables firefighters to become more proficient in utilizing their SCBA in darkened or theatrical smoke-filled conditions. The training satisfies government mandates and promotes inter-departmental cooperation. |
| Firearms Range |
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| This 75-foot indoor range will soon accommodate handgun and rifle training. |
| Public Safety Trailer |
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A custom-made, mobile trailer that provides opportunities for public education and community outreach. The temperature-controlled unit includes an interactive classroom, internal and external sound and light systems, extensive audio/visual equipment, and an on-board generator. |
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FACILITY USE BY NIPSTA MEMBERS
NIPSTA boasts many specialized indoor and outdoor Buildings and Props in a training environment that is unlike any other in the region. Access is available upon request and completion of a Facility Use Request Form.
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FACILITY USE BY OTHERS
NIPSTA boasts many specialized indoor and outdoor Buildings and Props in a training environment that is unlike any other in the region. Access is available upon request and completion of a Facility Use Request Form.
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