Unmatched Realism
Meeting Every Requirement
Expansive Capabilities
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Structural Collapse
City-block sized structural collapse simulators complete with special effects for smoke, fire, water and arcing power lines to provide realism to the responder. These venues allow for shoring, K9 operations, technical search using cameras and listening devices, breaching and breaking operations on replaceable panels, heavy lifting and movable slab floors to reconfigure the venue so that returning teams are faced with new rescue problems. All with the ability to incorporate live victim role players within and under the collapse. -
Residential Flooding
Our flooded neighborhood provides eight single family homes that flood up to 8 feet deep in water allowing civilian teams to conduct boat operations and victim rescues on rooftops or out of attic spaces. -
Commuter Rail
Our subway system provides eight metro rail cars on two parallel tracks within a 1,700 ft tunnel, including a platform station and derailment, to practice rescue in a tunnel environment with large commuter trains. -
Metroplex
Our 75 acre urban landscape provides a unique, realistic environment to train wide area search and evacuation operations. It also includes multiple 3 story buildings with high point anchors to practice rope high angle rescues. -
Diverse Campus
The Guardian Centers campus encompasses 830 total acres including forest and farm field environments to conduct wilderness search techniques. -
Interstate Highway
Our 1.1 mile four lane divided highway can be used to simulate any type of highway incident or accident with mass casualties.
Guardian Centers’ staff were incredibly pro-active. Everything from last minute search dogs to getting specific ethnic/language capable role players and everything in between was taken care of at the right place and right time every time.
Major Robert J. Casey
Combat Rescue Officer, 308th Rescue Squadron
I’ve seen a lot of sites around the world – this is the most complex site I’ve ever seen.
Chris Schaff
Fairfax County Fire Department Battalion Chief and Commander VA-TF1
The 830-acre property can recreate just about any disaster scenario imaginable…the diverse disaster scenes are really what makes this place state-of-the-art.
Nick Valencia
CNN
When my eyes first saw this, it was a wow factor. Our men and women have been around the proverbial block for many years, but this facility, these types of environments we’re finding here really puts us to work.
Louie Fernandez
FEMA Spokesman
I’ve seen other training sites around the country; nothing is as extensive or as realistic as Guardian Centers.
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Guy C. Swan
Former Commander USARNORTH
You will not see a more realistic environment than this anywhere in the world apart from a real incident.
Bob Rea
UK Firefighter (Ret.), UK Fire Service College
We really never had a venue that could allow us to integrate virtually all of that training into a single location…Guardian Centers gets that to a ‘T’.
General (Ret.) Gene Renuart
Former Commander USNORTHCOM, NORAD
This is the only [facility] that I’ve seen that has all of these venues here on one site. It’s like picking off a menu. You tell them I want this, this being this and this is how I want it done and they make it happen.
Chris Schaff
Fairfax County Fire Department Battalion Chief and Commander VA-TF1
Everything that we would see in a disaster that we would respond to, they have created here.
Keith Fontana
Paramedic IL-TF1
I think it gives them the best reality that you can find in the country.
Joe Hernandez
FL-TF2, President, Disaster Medical Solutions
Thanks for providing the dream, facility, and logistical support that resulted in the overwhelming success of exercise Scarlet Response.
Colonel Steven Redifer
Commanding Officer, USMC CBIRF