Multi-Purpose Collapsed Structures

after real world disasters such as the World Trade Center in New York City & the Pyne Gould building in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The main attractions to the technical rescue component of Guardian Centers are two city blocks of dynamic collapsed structures. Each of these city blocks houses a realistic multi-story collapsed structure with dynamic flooring systems which can be lowered, raised, or flattened to represent different stages of collapse. While one structure is primarily concrete collapse, the other is primarily steel collapse, each of which can house tons of rubble and debris to create a true “live pile.”

Within each collapsed structure, breaching and breaking can be conducted on any rubble; however, sacrifice panels have been strategically placed throughout the city-block sized buildings to be breached, creating pathways and access points to trapped victims and void spaces. In addition to this are armored tunnel systems that run under the rubble and spread out across each city block of collapse.

While Guardian Centers has a multitude of rescue mannequins to be placed in and around rubble, the armored tunnels are specifically designed to host live role players acting as trapped victims. Spread throughout the tunnel systems are rescue pods capped with concrete sacrifice panels which can be breached and entered to pull live victims out from under the debris. This trapped role player system creates a significant tool for training responders in that they can truly test their equipment and assets such as listening devices, canine, or on-scene medical treatment.