It will be amazing to have a state-of-the-art water rescue training facility in our backyard. Stay tuned for available training for your agency.
Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) is building a
specially equipped indoor facility to provide swift water rescue training.
This facility is projected to open in early 2023 and will
be operable seven days a week.
Swift water rescue training is critically important in an
increasingly flood-prone world.
Because of hurricanes and torrential rainstorms, dangerous
flood and swift water situations can happen almost anywhere. Emergency
personnel who face these situations need specialized training that can be
difficult and dangerous to arrange in natural outdoor settings.
Soon, that training will be readily available at FTCC’s
Swift Water Rescue Training facility in Fayetteville, N.C.
The facility will be equipped with an 88,000-gallon indoor
tank created by Fathom Tanks of Georgetown, Tex. The tank will be equipped with
pumps that can blast water at a flow of up to 7 knots, allowing first
responders and others to train year-round for rescues in floods, swift-water
situations and other water-rescue situations.
The facility will allow for a variety of training scenarios,
including different weather, water temperatures, obstacles, and rescue
challenges, including simulated rescues at night.
Other features will include:
- Year-round
training in clean, filtered water
- Controllable
water level, current, flow and direction
- Ability
to train with real submerged vehicles
- Realistic
lightning, thunder, rain, police sirens and lights
The Swift Water Rescue Training facility will be located on
the 30-acre state-of-the-art Fire
& Rescue Training complex that FTCC is building on Tom Starling
Road in Fayetteville.
