"You Respond How You're Trained!"
I was watching TBN, the Christian television station the other evening, and caught an interesting episode of the Mike Rowe show, "Somebody's Gotta Do It!" I have been tuning in to his programs for the past few years. They are informative and entertaining too! This week's show focused on a special program based in Texas that trains first responders to handle a myriad of disasters. The training program is called, "Disaster City!" They mainly target the equipping of fire fighters to handle chemical plant fires, explosions on oil platforms, terrorist bombings and natural disasters. The key to the training at this 52-acre site in College Station is that they provide realistic simulations that give the emergency responders the best and real life settings for disaster training. Their website says, "The mock community features full-scale, collapsible structures designed to simulate various levels of disaster and wreckage which can be customized for the specif