Your point is maybe that the simulation is bad. But I think it can be helpful nonetheless. Even if the simulation is "you have a battery fire in front of you. Tell me what you would do?"

If this is really a priority, then make it a priority. Start paying firefighters like cops are paid, and fund the fire department like the police department is funded.

In many places, fire departments are entirely voluntary while police departments are funded to the tune of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

In several places I've lived, the only way fire departments would get that training is if someone donated a bunch of EV batteries to be destroyed by them.

Why not? That's exactly what they do with ICBs and houses to train here.

There's not that much lithium and there is lots and lots of heat.