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Simulation & Enterprise

Fire Safety & Emergency Response Simulation

Connect hands-on firefighter training with command decisions and session review.

VAR LIVE works with organisations to shape immersive training around their people, facilities and response objectives. The programme can combine VR firefighter exercises with force-deployment commander training, bringing scenario design, integrated equipment, team coordination and instructor review into one project scope.

Discuss your training requirements

Concept illustration of VR firefighter trainees using a hose-training nozzle while an instructor monitors a virtual incident and site map. — Concept illustration of immersive firefighter training, equipment integration and instructor oversight. Project configurations are tailored to the training brief.

Training scenarios

Build around the learning objective

Our reference programme brings together observation and interactive exercises. Select and adapt the scope with your instructors, subject to technical assessment and current module availability.

Observe fire behaviour

Use recorded environments to discuss fire growth, smoke and changing conditions with an instructor.

Practise scenario recognition

Explore door-entry situations, hose-guided evacuation and thermal-imager familiarisation through guided virtual exercises.

Explore different incident settings

Consider electric-vehicle and solar incident scenarios, alongside workplace fire-awareness content tailored to the audience.

Virtual residential bedroom and study used as a reference environment for door-entry scenarios. — **Residential scenarios** A virtual interior from the door-entry training reference module.

Reference virtual electric-vehicle fire scenario inside a garage. — **Electric-vehicle incidents** A reference scenario for instructor-led incident discussion.

Virtual factory floor with machinery and trainee search targets from the thermal-imager training reference module. — **Industrial environments** A factory setting from the thermal-imager familiarisation reference module.

VR firefighter training

Connect physical equipment to the virtual exercise

Bring the equipment interface, movement tracking and sensory feedback into the training design. The configuration depends on the facility, audience and exercise requirements.

Hose and nozzle integration

A custom nozzle and auto-retracting hose reel can connect physical equipment interaction with the virtual scenario.

Motion capture and tracking

Wireless streaming and positional tracking can represent trainee movement, including walking and squatting, within the configured training area.

Sound and physical feedback

Scene audio and low-frequency vibration can provide physical cues for simulated events such as explosions or collapsing objects. Effects are configured for the exercise and venue.

Training management platform

Session data capture, analysis and training feedback give instructors material for review. Agree the records, access controls and assessment criteria as part of the programme.

Generated concept of a tracked hose-training nozzle with a red control lever and attached hose. — **Training nozzle**Concept illustration of a physical nozzle interface for virtual training.

Generated concept of a VR firefighter trainee moving through a tracked studio while a display shows the corresponding virtual environment. — **Movement in the virtual environment**Concept illustration of motion tracking and equipment interaction.

Force-deployment commander training

Create the incident. Exercise the decisions.

Build configurable disaster scenarios for command-level training. Terrain, buildings, conditions and timed information can be shaped around the decisions instructors want teams to practise.

Reference city and terrain editor showing a configurable urban training layout.

Terrain and deployment planning

Set the city scale, generate its appearance and position incident buildings and fire-brigade locations within the training environment.

Reference building editor with floor layout and incident placement controls.

Building and incident editing

Configure doors, windows, floors and partitions. Place simulated casualties and define the locations and number of incident events.

Reference day and night city views with weather and wind settings.

Environmental conditions

Adjust the time of day, weather, wind speed and wind direction to explore different conditions within a scenario.

Reference training-script interface with an event timeline and scenario settings.

Training scripts and prompts

Prepare or adjust scripts before or during an exercise. Timed questions and information prompts support situation assessment and decision-making discussions.

Reference simulated industrial fire and smoke spreading through a training scene.

Fire and smoke simulation

Represent the growth and spread of fire and smoke as an exercise develops. Simulation behaviour and the required level of fidelity are defined for the training use case.

Session playback

Review recorded instructor and trainee sessions, with pause, fast-forward and access to key moments for feedback and debriefing.

Screenshots from the supplied commander-training reference, with original interface text retained. These reference capabilities are scoped to each project. Module availability, integration, recording and deployment requirements are confirmed during planning.

Related scope

Extend where the programme needs it

Generated concept illustration of an unbranded red extinguisher-shaped training prop with a tracking sensor alongside a VR headset. — **Concept illustration** Newly generated visual of a possible training kit, not a product photograph. Final hardware and availability require confirmation.

Investigation assistance

Scene documentation and digital evidence review are a related area for discussion, with a separate workflow and requirements assessment.

Emergency-vehicle simulation

Driving simulation may be explored as an optional extension, subject to vehicle, hardware and course requirements.

Extinguisher training kit

The reference deck includes extinguisher-kit design concepts. Hardware availability and the proposed workplace-awareness content require confirmation before inclusion.

Start with your training brief

Define the scenario. Shape the system.

Tell us who will train, which practical and command roles are involved, the environments and equipment to represent, and how instructors want to review a session.

Discuss a project

Simulation content supports instructor-led learning. Course design and operating procedures remain subject to the organisation’s qualified training review.