Training rescue personel; the old fashion way

Some things are sometimes best kept simple. One of these things is training people what to do. Sometimes it's explaing structures, how they are made and how to deal with them. Sometimes you want to explain how to follow procedure and why. One simpel methode is the use of models. 

Here is a nice example of a model to explain thatched roof construction and how to fight fires with thatched roofs. Patches of canvas is used to simulate the strips of thatching and is removable from the model to reveal the interieur structure. 

Or just scale models of environments with various kind infrastructure. This is very usefull on teaching how to approach a scene and how to locate everything. Nice things about this particulair setup is the fact that these are actually puzzels. Multiple models can be joint to make a bigger envionment. 

But when do you get a birds eye view of a situation in real life? One way to get the right point of view is have people crawling inside a classroom, but thats not very user friendly for the student. Another simple, yet effective solution is to just put in on top of a extra high table.