{"id":81796,"date":"2026-01-08T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:26:08","slug":"disaster-university-phillys-new-ems-training-for-mass-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81796\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster University: Philly&#8217;s new EMS training for mass incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-media.fox.com\/fmcv3\/prod\/fts\/clhibvy7zl5y6dwv\/4rz8dlow0j0i28e0.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Philly's Disaster University: New EMS training for mass incidents\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Philadelphia Fire Department is taking proactive steps to ensure safety by launching a new training facility called &#8220;Disaster University.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Philadelphia&#8217;s new training initiative\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Disaster University offers high-fidelity immersive training for EMS providers, combining classroom learning with real-world scenarios.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This includes staged disaster scenes like car crashes and chemical hazards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;In that situation your traditional kind of deployment where you find one person and you take care of them completely no longer applies,&#8221; said Captain William Murphy, Fire Paramedic Captain, Philadelphia Fire Department. &#8220;You have to apply mass casualty and triage rules.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The facility opened in Kensington in October after the fire department seized the opportunity when a warehouse became available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;This was really thinking outside the box, an alternative way to provide training,&#8221; said Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson, Philadelphia Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">More than 400 EMS providers have already trained at Disaster University, with plans to include firefighters in the spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The facility is also being used by other agencies across the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">However, it will not replace the standard training at the academy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Details on the specific high-profile events planned for the summer and how the training will be integrated into these events remain unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Philadelphia Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Philadelphia Fire Department is taking proactive steps to ensure safety by launching a new training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-81796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}