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02-28-2013, 03:04 PM
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Super Storm Sandy (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/sandy/) took out a lot of automobiles in its path of destruction through the Northeast last October. The number surpassed 250,000 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/21/estimate-for-sandy-damaged-vehicles-surpasses-250-000/) at last count, and a few of those were owned by Chevrolet (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/) - cars either sitting on dealership lots or waiting at port to be shipped off. Rendered unsellable by the water damage inflicted by Sandy, these vehicles were facing the crusher. But Chevy didn't send them there.
Instead, Chevy had a better idea: It will be donating 300 of these vehicles damaged by Sandy to help train first responders at Guardian Centers (http://www.guardiancenters.com/) in Perry, GA. Chevy is the official automotive partner of Guardian Centers, which is an 830-acre facility that trains first responders in disaster preparedness. Junked cars are practically a consumable commodity there, where a full-size cityscape simulator (http://www.guardiancenters.com/facilities) gives trainees an entire urban center in which to train for all sorts of rescue operations and disaster scenarios.
Chevy says its particular vehicles will be used "in conjunction with role players for wide area searches, traffic congestion in emergency situations, counter terrorism, public order and mass casualty exercises." While grim scenarios all, we're certainly glad there are people out there preparing for the unexpected. While a zombie apocalypse isn't officially on the list of potential disasters to prepare for, when the virus hits, we'll be hot-footing it to Perry, GA to hang with these guys and gals.Continue reading Chevrolet donates 300 vehicles damaged by Sandy to help train first responders (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/28/chevrolet-donates-300-vehicles-damaged-by-sandy-to-help-train-fi/)
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Super Storm Sandy (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/sandy/) took out a lot of automobiles in its path of destruction through the Northeast last October. The number surpassed 250,000 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/21/estimate-for-sandy-damaged-vehicles-surpasses-250-000/) at last count, and a few of those were owned by Chevrolet (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/) - cars either sitting on dealership lots or waiting at port to be shipped off. Rendered unsellable by the water damage inflicted by Sandy, these vehicles were facing the crusher. But Chevy didn't send them there.
Instead, Chevy had a better idea: It will be donating 300 of these vehicles damaged by Sandy to help train first responders at Guardian Centers (http://www.guardiancenters.com/) in Perry, GA. Chevy is the official automotive partner of Guardian Centers, which is an 830-acre facility that trains first responders in disaster preparedness. Junked cars are practically a consumable commodity there, where a full-size cityscape simulator (http://www.guardiancenters.com/facilities) gives trainees an entire urban center in which to train for all sorts of rescue operations and disaster scenarios.
Chevy says its particular vehicles will be used "in conjunction with role players for wide area searches, traffic congestion in emergency situations, counter terrorism, public order and mass casualty exercises." While grim scenarios all, we're certainly glad there are people out there preparing for the unexpected. While a zombie apocalypse isn't officially on the list of potential disasters to prepare for, when the virus hits, we'll be hot-footing it to Perry, GA to hang with these guys and gals.Continue reading Chevrolet donates 300 vehicles damaged by Sandy to help train first responders (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/28/chevrolet-donates-300-vehicles-damaged-by-sandy-to-help-train-fi/)
Chevrolet donates 300 vehicles damaged by Sandy to help train first responders (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/28/chevrolet-donates-300-vehicles-damaged-by-sandy-to-help-train-fi/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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