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| ETC Delivers Fourth ADMS Exercise to BWI Airport |
| Southampton, PA, April 19, 2006: Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX:ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") announced today the successful completion of the fourth contracted training session with Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) utilizing the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS™).
Maryland Aviation Administration contracted ETC to develop and conduct a series of ADMS training sessions to prepare relevant BWI personnel in several different areas of airport disaster response, including a mass casualty airline crash, a terrorist related HAZMAT (hazardous material) incident, and in the most recent exercise, a fuel spill and fire at the terminal. These weeklong training sessions helped BWI response personnel acquire valuable experience through hands-on exercises. ADMS was used to train over 100 airport first responders, mutual aid responders from the surrounding areas and airport operations executives. The latest exercise begins with a report of a fuel spill, but as the dispatched firefighter crew approaches, they observe smoke. As they continue to approach the scene of the incident the view from their virtual ARFF (Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting) Crash Truck reveals that they are dealing with more than a simple spill. As the scene continues to unfold, responders witness the fire spread from the fueling truck to an adjacent Boeing-757, into the jet way and into the airport terminal. Fire fighters must think fast as the event quickly cascades. They must call for additional fire suppression resources, law enforcement and emergency medical services, as well as make the call to shut down the airport. As the firefighters continue to draw near, people are seen evacuating the terminal. Now responders must deal with a large fuel spill HAZMAT issue, fires on the plane, jet way and terminal, many possible injuries as well as a panicked crowd in a security sensitive area. ADMS enables response organizations to work collaboratively to mitigate crisis situations and maintain order in the chaos of a catastrophic event. ADMS presents a disaster situation in an authentic, physics-based 3D environment and dynamically reacts to trainees' commands, utilizing realistically modeled vehicles, people and equipment. ADMS provides stress levels like those experienced in an actual event, facilitating a dynamic, realistic training environment. As the simulation progresses, first response teams use joysticks to navigate their view of the 3D virtual world viewed on a large projection screen. Teams communicate with the Incident Commander and other organizations while ETC facilitators command the virtual teams by inputting orders into the linked training stations. The results of decisions, actions or inactions play out in real time, and are viewed in on each team's station, representing individual points of view of the common scene. Dealing with security related threats, fire and explosion related disasters and biochemical incidents requires responding personnel to place themselves within the immediate threat of danger and to make appropriate decisions under extreme stress. Simulation training has been proven to be the leading technology in increasing emergency responders' preparedness levels, and ADMS Intelligent VR Technologyä allows the exercises to be driven by the decision-making process, providing realistic, yet safe and efficient training. For over a decade, ADMS has been in use at US Airports and major firefighting and emergency response training facilities worldwide, and is an industry-proven and mature solution for optimal emergency preparedness. For more information, please visit www.ADMSTraining.com. | ||
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