After years of planning, Biddeford, Saco and Kennebunk's fire departments have joined forces to created a technical rescue team, named the Tri-Comm Tech Rescue Team (TCTRT), which will be doing their third official training exercise at Funtown Splashtown USA. This will be their first public training, and will be conducted on two of the park's most popular and tallest attractions: Excalibur and Dragon's Descent.  

"Since this is the first public training of the team, we wanted to focus on the highest training potential while pre-planning actual hazards, Funtown provides more than one real-life hazard, easy access and easy site control," said Derick Ouellette, team leader and nine-year veteran of the Biddeford Fire Department.    

Funtown Splashtown USA was chosen because the park has some of the highest structures within the three communities. "We are happy to be working with our local fire departments on this very important training, we just hope that we never need to call on them to use it," said Cory Hutchinson, vice president and general manager for the park.  

Members of the press, if they wish to, will be invited to be rescued on Excalibur as part of the training exercise. Any inquiries regarding this should be made to Derick Ouellette at Biddeford Fire Department at 207-282-6632 or derick.ouellette@bpd.net.