Caption: Pictured from left to right on May 3, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students Nick Bobinski, Jake Varnes and Bill Schmitz; Gary Whited, program manager for the UW-Madison Construction and Materials Support Center; and Michael Kunesh, REACT Center director, pose at the soon-to-open Wing 2 of the Rubble Pile at the REACT Center near Camp Douglas, Wis. The REACT Center provides specialized disaster- and complex-rescue training to approximately 480 state firefighters. The Rubble Pile is a jumbled mass of steel, concrete, wrecked vehicles and mannequin victims that enables trainees to simulate an eight-hour-long structural-collapse rescue. Bobinski, Varnes, Schmitz and Dan Zignego (graduated Dec. 2007 and not pictured) comprised a four-person team of UW-Madison engineering students who designed Wing 2 as part of a senior capstone design challenges course.
Photo by: courtesy REACT Center
Date: May 2008
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Caption: On April 26, 2008, a jumbled mass of steel, concrete, wrecked vehicles and mannequin victims is Wing 2 of the 6,400-square-foot Rubble Pile at the React Center near Camp Douglas, Wis. Part of a unique Wisconsin facility that provides disaster- and complex-rescue training to hundreds of firefighters, Wing 2 of the Rubble Pile, which was designed by a team of four University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students, simulates the wreckage created by an apartment-building collapse onto a parking garage.
Photo by: courtesy REACT Center
Date: April 2008
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Caption: On April 26, 2008, a jumbled mass of steel, concrete, wrecked vehicles and mannequin victims is Wing 2 of the 6,400-square-foot Rubble Pile at the React Center near Camp Douglas, Wis. Part of a unique Wisconsin facility that provides disaster- and complex-rescue training to hundreds of firefighters, Wing 2 of the Rubble Pile, which was designed by a team of four University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students, simulates the wreckage created by an apartment-building collapse onto a parking garage.
Photo by: courtesy REACT Center
Date: April 2008
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