Training
Real Training for real-life situations
Lake County Advanced Response Training Academy (LCARTA) is located along Russell Road in Newport Township in Lake County, Illinois. It is designed to provide first responders and private corporations with a place where they can practice every aspect of an incident from planning to resolution. The scope of experiences will range from day-to-day events to major disasters.
The College of Lake County’s close proximity and the extensive coordinated hands-on experience provided by LCARTA will greatly benefit Lake County students pursuing a first responder career
Training Operations Site
A concrete surface area for fire agencies to exercise and train on vehicle placements at an emergency scene. It provides the needed location to train on various hose line deployments and equipment use.
This large area provides a surface that is conducive to extrication exercises using large trucks, buses as well as smaller passenger-type vehicles. Also, provides access to exercises and portable props by the public safety agency vehicles and extrication equipment.
Four-Story, Multi-Purpose Training Tower
A multi-purpose tower designed for fire operations training and can be used for police simulation training. Opportunities for all basic and advanced firefighter training including salvage and overhaul, smoke situation, standpipe work, hose advancement, ladder training, roof type training, aerial apparatus placement and spotting, ladder climbing and ventilation.
Police agencies can conduct active shooter drills where they can use simulations. The tower provides roof decks and windows that can be used in various shooter scenarios to simulate an individual exiting a building at different levels.
Technical rescue team training requirements are also met with this building. The high angle rescue team uses the tower for repelling, high angle rescues which may involve trapped persons in the side of a building, pick-offs, rigging and harnessing in the air and patient movements. Also, this tower can be used for confined space rescue training.
Dry Hydrant
Fire agencies use this to exercise and train on various hose lead outs and deployments. This would be used in conjunction with fire extinguishment and other emergency situations.
Heavy Debris Pile
One of three heavy debris piles in Illinois and the only one regionally. Used for training and exercises for those rescuers involved in structural collapse rescue, surveillance debris entries, shoring and other activities associated with heavy structural collapses.
Confined Space Outside
Typically, on construction sites and in collapse situations, rescuers need to access confined spaces in order to rescue victims. This space is used in conjunction with heavy structural collapse props to train rescuers in the various types of confined space entries.
Confined Space in a Collapse Situation
This provides training for confined space situations. It adds the structural collapse element which is not found in most training props but has occurred frequently in collapse situations. This confined space includes a system of piping that a rescuer must crawl through and is set under a light rather than a heavy debris pile.
Collapse Building/Roadway
This element utilizes runway spans that are placed in concrete stanchions. All kinds of structural materials are loaded in this small space including appliances and household items. The rescuer must tunnel or dig their way through to safely reach the other side.
Heavy Structural Collapse
These are constantly evolving installations. It is essential in public safety agency training that you learn from past experience or experiences others have encountered.
Structural Collapse Panels
This simulation includes sections of a runway that were cut out and brought in to use for heavy wall shoring exercises. Installed on angles to simulate an unstable condition that warrants shoring.
Ropes and Rigging
The rescuers are taught the proper way to use ropes, chains, and cables for rigging purposes in a collapse situation. This exercise is used in conjunction with single or multiple cranes.
Debris Pile Tunneling Prop
Rescuers are taught how to properly cut, disassemble and effectively move through or move out the parts and pieces of an appliance(s) in a structural collapse situation while trying to move through total debris and shoring the unstable conditions in a confined space collapse situation.
Flashover Simulator
This simulation was specifically developed to train firefighters in flashover situations. A viewing area allows firefighters to watch how a fire progresses through all phases of a flashover.