This Firefighter Safety training simulation program creates a comprehensive fire safety education and training program using virtual reality simulation technology, formal instructional design methodologies, fire service best practices strategies and tactics, and real world case studies to improve the critical decision-making skills of company officers. This enables instructors to more effectively teach cognitive judgment and thinking skills. The method is to provide a robust computer-based software program of serious fire scenarios that bring training materials alive in an interactive, challenging, engaging computer environment similar to 3D virtual reality “serious games.”