FVTC- PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER

 

Fox Valley Technical College opened the doors to the new Public Safety Training Center in the beginning of this year.  Today our members got the opportunity to tour the new facility.  The facility is located on County Road BB in Appleton on 75 acres by the Outagamie County Airport.  The training they provide includes Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Protection and Wildland Fire.  They gave us a tour of the indoor classrooms and training areas which included: 2 Defense and Arrest Tactics Rooms, 2 Indoor firing ranges, EMS Lab and Ambulance Bay, Fire Training Area and Apparatus Bay, Fitness Center, Jail Training Area and Telecommunications Training Area.  Outside they showed us the area for Emergency Vehicle Driving Range which included: Off-road driving area, Pursuit Track, Skid Pad and Skills Pad.  They also have outdoor firing ranges.  2 50-yard tactical ranges, 100 yard firing range and a 300 yard sniper range.  Also included in the tour was the fire training section.  This included: 5-story class A burn building, Air rescue and firefighting training, burn pods, drafting pond, gas meter prop, HazMat, Vehicle Extrication and Car fire props, High-Angle/Technical Rescue, ladder training tower, trench and confined space rescue sprinkler lab and water and ice rescue.  Lastly on the tour we saw Scenario Village (River City).  That included Commercial and Residential Structures, Forced Entry/Tactical House, Permanent Mock Crime Scenes and Streets and Intersections.  We want to thank Fox Valley Technical College for allowing us to tour the facility.  A special Thank You to Mary Downs for arranging this visit, to Teresa Tuschl for putting everything together and to Josh Dukelow and his staff for being great tour guides.  If you enjoyed your tour, or did not have the opportunity to attend, there is an opportunity on June 10^th to see another awesome part of FVTC… On Wed, June 10 at 4p the doors of the FabLab open to the public! What’s the “FabLab” you ask? It’s a network of maker-spaces around the world, and one of them is located at Fox Valley Tech! Come see how you can use 3D printers, laser etching, vinyl cutters, and many other machines to turn your ideas into reality. More information and registration for this FREE EVENT here: www.fvtc.edu/explorefablab.