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6 TRAINING
The Dublin Fire Brigade Training Centre (The O’Brien during the Incident Command
Institute); located on the Malahide Road is the largest Elements of the District Officer
Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services Training Promotional process and District
facility in Ireland. It facilitates training in many Officer, Station Officer & Sub Officer
disciplines and provides expert tuition for both internal development training courses. The
and external programmes. These include Dublin Fire use of virtual-reality training has proved
Brigade Fire, Rescue and Paramedic training, courses to be an excellent addition in providing
for local authority staff and training for other fire state of the art Fire Rescue & Emergency
services nationally. Medical Services scenario-based training.
Incident Command Virtual Reality Training Suite was Due to the high volume of training, internal and
utilised during the Paramedic Course, simulating external record verification requirements, the
mass casualty incidents and the introduction of Training Centre operates its own administration
a virtual ambulance salon. This innovation allows section, which are now also operating the Gartan
trainee paramedics partake in scenario based training, Human Resource Management system for the Training
working alone in an ambulance while being observed Centre.
remotely by the tutors. The system was also utilised
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