FORT WORTH POLICE AND FIRE PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER
Located south of Fort Worth’s downtown was an existing complex of pre-World War II warehouses that were no longer in use. Seeing an opportunity to save money, the city wanted to repurpose these buildings and create a new training facility for both its police and fire departments on the 70-acre campus. Within the facility is a simulator that is capable of creating industrial and hazardous material scenarios with leaking gas, smoke, and fire. A second warehouse holds a simulated training “mock” village, which offers a cityscape layout with buildings designed to offer trainees a variety of scenarios for emergency and rescue situations.
For the mock villages, a series of microphones and cameras to record the trainees as they go through each scenario, along with an audio system to play recorded screams for the training sessions were installed. We installed Crestron control systems for the smoke generators to help create a realistic simulation of these emergency scenarios.
In the classrooms, a Marshall MLP 54 lectern with a Creston DMPS-300-C presentation system runs the new screen projector and audio for presentations. In the conference rooms, Crestron audio and video controls were used, along with video teleconferencing technology.
In the auditorium a full setup was implemented, including Middle Atlantic racks, Draper Sl-12 projector lift mounts and 102827L screen, Barco PGWU-61B and RLM-W12 projectors, Sharp PNU553 displays, and a Tannoy loudspeaker system.
