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
- Click Here for a map of the complex
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