From Vision to Reality

  This is the second installment of a series of articles about the creation of a state-of-the-art technical rescue training center – the Monroe County, NY, Public Safety Training Facility (PSTF) – and the events that helped make the vision a reality. Part one (June 2011) described how, despite the challenges of shrinking budgets, members of the Monroe County fire service acquired a place to train, assembled an instructional staff and staged the necessary equipment. The...