Rescue Team Training Center Rises in Northern Virginia Construction industry donates three-story structure
Urban Search and Rescue Teams usually train in artificial situations. But thanks to construction industry volunteers, the Fairfax County, Va., Urban Search and Rescue Task Force will soon have a changeable "scenario building" where members can practice rescues in simulated collapsed structures or confined spaces.
About a year ago, task force member Leo Titus, a geotechnical engineer with ECS Ltd., Chantilly, Va., reached out to the construction community to help the squad realize its dream of a unique training facility. Fairfax task force members responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, 1999 earthquakes in Turkey and 1995 Oklahoma City blast.