FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently completed two sizable paving projects and is gearing up to begin another.
During the past month, aging parking lots at the CDP’s main building and its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility received new pavement as part of a campus-wide improvement project.
The overall project involves several …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will offer a week of train-the-trainer courses September 11-16, which will prepare attendees to deliver select CDP training to other responders in their communities.
Train-the-trainer courses serve as a force multiplier, enabling participants to train their agency members, partnering agencies and communities in recognition, response and mitigation best practices. …
When an EF-4 tornado struck Winterset, Iowa, on March 5, Diogenes Ayala, director of the Madison County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, relied on training he received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in his response to the storm.
Ayala felt pulled to the emergency management field following 9/11. A native of New …
The 2022 National Preparedness Symposium came to a close today on the campus of FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama.
The annual event was attended by more than 200 people, including federal preparedness coordinators, state training officers, and emergency managers and first responders from across the nation. It featured remarks by FEMA Deputy …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has a library of self-paced, web-based training offerings responders can access anywhere, using a computer or compatible mobile device.
One of the offerings – Homemade Explosives and Precursor Awareness for Public Safety – teaches responders about the types of materials typically used in homemade explosives as well as the reasons …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is working with the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office to create web-based Post-BioWatch Actionable Result Sampling Refresher Training.
The DHS BioWatch Program monitors for biological agents intentionally released into the air. It acts as an early warning system, enabling rapid response to reduce …
This week, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness concludes its annual Tribal Nations Training Week.
Training during this year’s event spanned more than a month and was held both in residence at the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama, and virtually.
Resident training was conducted in early March with 75 responders participating in healthcare, law enforcement and …
Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.
The incident involved more than 20 inmates from the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, who set several fires in a building.
According to reports, to safely restore order, the corrections officers used a …
When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.
Chances are good a number of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.
During …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has released a web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.
The resident course is a five-day operations-level offering which teaches responders how to analyze, plan and implement response actions for hazardous materials incidents. The course meets OSHA hazmat operations certification standards and is a pre-requisite for …
