On Oct. 18, 2022 EMRTC hosted Professional Development Day for NDPC Consortium partners. Thirty-five members participated and were treated to a field trip where they witnessed a series of eight explosions ranging from a blasting cap in grapefruit to 3 ½ pounds ANFO with a C3 Detasheet Booster.
Following the morning explosives demonstration, lunch was …
In October 2022, participants from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut Regional Transit Security Working Group came to New Mexico Tech to take a customized version of the Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings (IRTB) course. Forty-five participants from nine agencies attended the multi-day training course. These agencies included Amtrak, Connecticut State Police, Metropolitan Transportation …
Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania recently lauded the training it receives each year from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.
In an article in a local newspaper, Geisinger’s Associate Vice President of Emergency Management and Employee Health, Stephanie Gryboski, is quoted as saying the center is prepared for tragedies like a recent active shooter incident …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for December.
The CDP conducted 23 non-resident courses for 608 responders and 68 indirect courses for 1,034 responders during the month, it said.
Non-resident courses are delivered by contract CDP instructors at locations across the United States. Indirect courses are delivered by …
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 the Hazardous Materials Awareness Distant Learning Course, which provides students with awareness-level hazardous materials competencies, as defined by NFPA 1072 and NFPA 472. The …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of May 2023.
Hazardous materials offerings include the center’s Hazardous Materials Operations; Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection; and Hazardous Materials Technician courses.
Law enforcement courses offered in May include Law Enforcement Protective Measures for Complex Incidents, held in …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week hosted a senior level focus group of executives from the Black Chief Officers Committee (BCOC).
The BCOC is comprised of more than 500 black chief officers in the United States, United Kingdom, Africa and the Caribbean who work to improve the educational and other professional development of minority …
State, local, tribal and territorial responders recorded 57,537 course completions in 2022 in training offerings provided by FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).
The completions spanned resident, non-resident and indirect courses and online (Virtual Instructor-Led Training and distance learning) classes, including training which directly helped responders prepare for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is gearing up for its annual Tribal Nations Training Week, the largest event of its type in the Department of Homeland Security.
The week of resident courses will be conducted March 11-18 at the center’s campus in Anniston, Alabama, and will incorporate training from the CDP and several of …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is preparing to release a new video short, Healthcare Provider Down.
The offering shows healthcare providers how to safely evacuate a fellow provider who has become incapacitated while treating a patient with an infectious disease. It is currently in the final stages of production and expected to be released …
