The Facility
 The Combined Regional Emergency Services Training (CREST) center is the
result of ideas from local Police, Fire and EMS Agencies and Oakland Community
College. The Concept of a training “city” providing realistic settings for
real-life problems faced by emergency responders is an innovative outcome
of Oakland Community College’s more than 30 years experience in training
emergency services personnel.
CREST is conveniently located near I-75 and M-59 at Oakland Community
College’s Auburn Hills Campus, in South-East, Michigan. This is a unique
training facility with furnished houses, a bank, convenience store, motel
and five story live fire training tower. The facility offers a wide variety
of props to make your training as real as possible. Police vehicles, fire
engines and ambulances are all part of your training experience at CREST.
Why CREST?
The importance of training at CREST is demonstrated daily. Instructors
take critical training subjects from the classroom into the “lab” where
scenarios based on real world problems become invaluable learning tools.
Basic and advanced personnel profit from the experience of putting theory
into practice in real-life settings where trainees must not only think through
options and decisions, but also actively apply their skills.
This approach means that trainees will retain the lesson at a greater
level than could be expected from classroom presentations alone. Scenarios
are repeatable so trainees can go through them until the knowledge and skills
are mastered.
The Complex
- Classrooms with full instructional Technology
- Full Service Bank
- Multi use motel/hotel
- Convenience store/gas station
- Two story house with basement and detached garage
- Ranch style house with attached garage
- Two story cape cod style home
- Paved roads with signage and functional traffic lights
- Five story live fire training tower
- Tanker with fuel spill area
- Vehicle fire simulator
- Collapse & confined space training
- Flashover Trainer
- HAZMAT training area
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