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) recently launched its Public Order and Public Safety – Executive (POPS-E) Course.
The eight-hour offering teaches law enforcement supervisors and upper-level managers about the legal rights of protesters, basic crowd management and de-escalation tactics.
The course is delivered primarily in the CDP’s Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) format, which is …
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 …
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted $22 million to LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Academy for Counter-Terrorism Education, or LSU NCBRT/ACE.
This funding allows LSU NCBRT/ACE to deliver emergency preparedness education and training to emergency responders at the state, local, tribal and territorial level at no direct …
Now that EMRTC’s course registration and certification is transitioning to an online platform, the time it takes to register and receive the certificate is significantly reduced.
Vanessa Ruane manages mobile courses and data collection at EMRTC and explained how the registration process is streamlined. Ruane highlighted that “Registering in class takes about 10-15 minutes of …
Playas, a once-abandoned former mining town located in New Mexico’s remote southwestern bootheel region, provides pretty incredible training opportunities. With its controlled access and expanse of 400,000 acres of operational space, the New Mexico Tech-owned facility offers unique and state of the art training. From its live fire and driving ranges, a high explosives range, …
EMRTC is enhancing course materials via Interactive 3D visual aids that engage participants.
The 3D printed models would allow participants to visualize emergency scenarios with more detail. Two different types of models are being used. One is 3D modeling, which shows a 3D representation of an object digitally. 3D printed objects are modeled digitally then …
LSU NCBRT/ACE recently hosted its first virtual delivery of the Spanish-language version of the Site Protection Through Observational Techniques – Customized (SPOT-C) class for Puerto Rico. Forty-four participants attended the training via Zoom. Providing Spanish translation and interpretation of classes is part of LSU NCBRT/ACE’s commitment to providing training to participants who have been previously …
