The Center for Domestic Preparedness is currently putting the final touches on a plan to provide critical preparedness training to responders in a coastal Alabama county.
The training, tentatively scheduled for the week of August 9-13, will involve CDP instructional staff putting members of the Baldwin County, Alabama, emergency response team through an Integrated Capstone Event, or ICE, similar to those the center routinely conducts on its campus.
Integrated Capstone Events are full-blown exercises, where students are forced to respond to one or more simulated incidents patterned after recent real-world events. In a typical year, the CDP conducts about 25 ICEs overall.
Students in the Baldwin County training will respond to simulated incidents resulting from a hurricane.
The county, which is home to a number of popular tourist destinations such as Fairhope and Orange Beach, was ground zero for the landfall of Hurricane Sally in 2020. That storm killed 8 people and caused more than $7 billion in damages in Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.
