About Calamityville®
A state-of-the-art, collaborative training and research facility on 55 acres in Fairborn, Ohio, Calamityville® prepares the civilian and military medical communities to participate and react in an effective and meaningful manner with traditional disaster responders. This provides the nation with a more complete approach to finding patients, offering initial care, and safely evacuating them from acute disaster-related environments.
Calamityville® blends the principles of search and rescue, field assessment, stabilization, field triage and transport to the next level of care.
The site offers 55 acres of austere environments with ready access to 400 additional acres including woods, wetlands, and quarry.
This is the first site in the United States to fully integrate the civilian and military relationships, and medical and non-medical responses that occur in a disaster or other complex rescue situation.
Calamityville offers advanced facility and infrastructure master planning, including:
- Comprehensive site infrastructure provides water, power, and high bandwidth IT capabilities.
- On-site, high volume wells provide high-output water for decontamination, flooding or other water-based feature or simulation.
- Selected site features are pre-designed, and others based on "empty stage." This allows for maximally flexible scenario based training and exercise settings.
- New equipment, procedures, and technology can be realistically applied and assessed.
A unique opportunity for defense conversion of military medical response best practices can take place whereby traditional Air Force education and training courses can be translated and transferred to the civilian medical and first responder communities. In so doing, this will offer a more frequently utilized and more widely tested skill set. As the partnership between WSU and USAFSAM matures, traditional Air Force course content and faculty members will be imbedded into the University’s education and research programs. Therefore, WSU and The National Center for Medical Readiness becomes an educational bridge between the civilian and military worlds and offers students a more complete learning experience. Calamityville®-TL will also provide an outlet and catalyst for military personnel to transfer to the civilian workforce in both the educational and medical employment markets.
Mock Emergency Operations Center
In its Joint Command Operations Research Environment (J-CORE) lab, Calamityville offers an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for training and exercise support. Fully reconfigurable and featuring 12 workstations for emergency support functions, a high-bandwith standalone internet network, and integration with the sensors network at Calamityville, the EOC is a highly flexible environment.
Location
Calamityville is easily accessible, in close proximity to I-70/I-75 crossroads, Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus International airports. It is uniquely positioned within an urban/suburban environment, allowing greater realism, as well as a four-season climate.
The hospitality community nearby offers a large selection of hotels, restaurants, daytime and evening activities. The site is near the Wright State University campus and in immediate proximity to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, providing additional services and props and easy ground and air access for military personnel. NCMR at Calamityville is co-located with many technology-oriented defense contractors, promoting collaborative opportunities.
