VIRGINIA BEACH Like many other professions around the world, the way firefighters train and perform their duties was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, one Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Fire & Emergency Services firefighter on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana saw it as an opportunity and built an in-house firefighter training simulator, making sure he and his fellow firefighters are always ready to face any situation that may come their way. "I decided when all of this started that I was going to build us an in-house fire training simulator, because with everything going on with COVID, we weren't able to go out and do the training that we usually do from the outside jurisdictions," said Joseph Tabor, a firefighter on board NAS Oceana.