In late October FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness entered its third year of offering expeditionary training to responders, particularly those immediately facing or recovering from disasters.
On October 30, 2018, the center announced that it had taken material from a number of CDP courses and packaged it into just-in-time, one- to four-hour training offerings for delivery to responders at their home stations. The CDP has a library of more than 50 such offerings prepared, with a heavy emphasis on public health, hazardous materials, dealing with mass casualties, and incident command.
Multiple states have since requested information about the center’s expeditionary training capability.
And the CDP tested the expeditionary training concept early on by training 455 FEMA responders prior to them deploying to support recovery operations in 2018. Among other things, the FEMA responders were taught how to recognize and avoid hazards and safely move about in a disaster area.
