Incident Command Simulation Lab – Charleston Fire Station 11

During this three-hour classroom session, attendees will utilize the Fire Chief Tom Carr Command Training Center, which is located next to the Charleston 9 Memorial site where nine firefighters died on June 18, 2007. The training center is a state-of the art facility dedicated to the fire chief who led the Charleston Fire Department following June 18, 2017 and helped make the progress necessary to be a national model for change. Attendees will participate in command scenarios with computer-generated incidents that require them to work together with other attendees who are operating on the virtual scene as well. This class focuses on technology to build command scenarios, to practice commanding of emergency scenes along with the radio traffic that coincides.

Sofa Super Store Fire Tour at the Charleston 9 Memorial

During this two-hour guided tour, FireFusion attendees will experience a walk-through at the exact location of the multiple line-of-duty death incident that occurred on June 18, 2007 where nine Charleston firefighters perished, plus the new firehouse that is adjacent to the Charleston 9 Memorial Site. On this tour, current Charleston Fire Department members who were in the department during the time of the incident in 2007 and who are still in the department today, will give their experiences of the incident, detailed information about the nine firefighters who died on that day, the layout of the commercial structure, specific information about the building construction, where and how the fire originated, where each of the nine firefighters were found, plus the layout of apparatus on scene. Transportation is provided.