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Training emergency responders

Recorded April 6, 2006

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Dennis McGrath, a research associate at the Thayer School of Engineering and a researcher with Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, develops computer simulated exercises to train emergency responders. In this podcast he talks about how the scenarios are designed, and how they are used to train EMTs, firemen, and policemen.

Related link:

• Emergency Readiness & Response Research Center (ER3)