The fireground,
rehearsed as a team.
Aries is a multiplayer simulator for fire departments. A full crew, an incident commander, and a structure fire. Run as many times as it takes.
“Simulation provides a controlled, yet realistic environment where firefighters can hone their skills, improve communications, make decisions, and face consequences in a safe, virtual setting.”
A multiplayer environment, not a single-seat simulator.
A battalion chief runs the scene from one room. Crews deploy from another. Radio traffic happens over the same channels they use on shift. Everything a real fireground coordinates, from sectors and assignments to accountability and ventilation timing, runs through people talking to each other.
Aries is not a teaching tool for how to fight fire. That happens on the drill ground. Aries is where departments rehearse the team-level and command-level decisions that are expensive or impossible to run live: staffing a second alarm, running a Mayday, handing off command on a long incident.
Built with Allen, Texas Fire Department.
Development began in 2022 alongside the Allen FD training division. The department uses Aries for company-level radio drills and command-level tabletops with the full staff at console. Allen FD is the first department to put a simulation environment of this kind into in-service use.
Their published outcome is straightforward: firefighters who have undergone simulation training report higher confidence and lower stress levels during actual emergencies, and the program prepares crews for the rare high-risk events that are seldom experienced in a career.
A 45-minute drill, compressed into four acts.
Every session follows the same rhythm a real incident does. Nothing is skipped. Nothing is scripted beyond the first radio call.
- Phase 01
Setup
Instructor picks a structure, staffing, and the initial scenario. Pre-fire conditions go in from a short form.
- Phase 02
Deployment
Players arrive as firefighter units or as the IC. Size-up identifies the conditions, the actions, and the needs.
- Phase 03
Command
The IC runs sectors over real radio channels. PAR checks, ventilation decisions, Mayday response, as it would actually sound.
- Phase 04
Debrief
Every radio call is transcribed. The trainer walks the crew back through the log: what was said, what was done, what wasn't.
Bring Aries to your department.
Thirty-minute demo over a call. We'll run a short scenario with your training chief at the console.