A captain for a volunteer fire department in East Tennessee says he used training received at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) when responding to multiple incidents, including wildfires earlier this year near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which impacted more than 100 structures and prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.
Robert …
The Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is busy developing scripts for new exercises it plans to incorporate into its refurbished training bays.
The scripts will detail what actions students are expected to perform during the exercises, which will correspond with new vinyl coverings and props that …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is among the organizations being credited with ensuring an incident-free 2022 World Games earlier this month.
That’s because the CDP provided training to more than 1,200 emergency managers, firefighters, law enforcement officers and medical specialists in Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama in direct preparation for event, which drew athletes …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has added two new courses to its distance learning library – Toxic Gas-Forming Reactions Training (TRO) and Post-BioWatch Actionable Result Sampling Refresher Training (Post-BAR).
Both web-based courses are an hour long and were developed in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
TRO teaches …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based, training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.
Among the offerings is Radiological Emergency Management (REM), which teaches students how to prepare for, respond to and recover from radiological events and mitigate the risk of future …
A working group gathered at the Center of Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week to begin outlining the center’s next Tribal Nations Training Week.
The annual event is the largest training event of its type in the Department of Homeland Security, usually attended by about 300 tribal nation responders.
The working group, comprised of responders from …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its quarterly report on the effectiveness of its training during the first quarter of 2022.
The report, taken from student surveys and a comparison of pre-tests and final exams, gauges the degree to which students found the training to be appealing and relevant as well as whether …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is currently assisting with the training of 75 National Guardsmen from three states.
This week, 25 members of the Vermont Air National Guard and 12 soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard will complete two weeks of training on the CDP campus and 38 guardsmen from New Mexico will …
A Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) employee has been chosen to participate in a Department of Homeland Security working group focused on mental health and wellness.
Kelly Ryan, a supervisory instructional systems specialist at the center, was notified of his selection in May.
The working group’s goal is to develop a comprehensive, research-informed approach to …
The partnership between FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Office of Bombing Prevention (OBP) provides added value to the training many responders receive at the CDP.
To-date in 2022, six OBP courses have been conducted on the CDP campus, resulting in 51 completions of its Protective Measures Course …
