Matt Hewson
A Geelong-based company has donated one of its virtual reality firefighting training systems to the State Emergency Services of Ukraine.
Immersive learning solutions company FLAIM Systems, a global leader in its field, has collaborated with UK firefighting vehicle manufacturer North Fire and the Ukrainian Firefighters Foundation to provide a FLAIM Trainer T3 system to enable firefighters in Ukraine to train for a range of different emergency situations.
FLAIM training systems combine high fidelity virtual reality with industry standard firefighting equipment to create fully immersive training scenarios with no risk of injury to trainees and no damage to the environment.
The donated system will provide much-needed assistance to war-torn Ukraine, which is dealing with a high frequency of firefighting incidents while also facing challenges caused by limited access to resources and facilities.
Chief executive Simon Miller said FLAIM was proud to donate the training system to Ukraine.
“The technology that we develop is all about giving people more confidence and enabling them to train in high risk, high hazard emergency situations if called to,” Mr Miller said.
“And in a war or conflict there are constant fires to be fought. So it’s about giving people the confidence and the knowledge to know how to react to fires, how to best approach them, how to fight the fire itself and what decisions to make under stress.
“Hopefully (this will) prevent fires from propagating or at least contain them, prevent loss of life and protect property as much as you can given the context of an open hostile war situation.”
FLAIM currently has minesweeping training systems in development and hopes to donate those systems to Ukraine in the future.
