FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness last week wrapped up an extensive, month-long training effort geared specifically at responders in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The center’s Caribbean Area Initiative resulted in the virtual delivery of critical training – in both English and Spanish – to more than 500 responders in the two U.S. …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness announced this week that the updated version of its Field Force Command: Executive Course will be ready
for delivery in early fall.
Additionally, it said the new version of the eight-hour offering will be available for both virtual and non-resident delivery. It previously was offered as a non-resident course only.…
On July 11, over 40 attendees of the 2021 Natural Hazards Workshop participated in NDPTC’s Natural Hazards Awareness for Community Leaders (AWR-310). The course was taught by Allison Hardin, CFM, Director of Planning and Development for the City of Conway, who has extensive experience in regional and urban planning, GIS mapping and coordination, floodplain …
The CDP will soon open a medical clinic in its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility.
The clinic will perform mandatory annual medical screenings of staff as well as required testing of students who train in the facility.
Employees who routinely wear certain types of personal protective equipment (PPE) must undergo an annual physical …
Course developers at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness are one step closer to unveiling a new Basic Emergency Response Training Course (BERT).
An updated version of the center’s former four-day Technical Emergency Response Training offering, the course includes instruction on basic hazardous materials identification, scene survey and assessment, mass casualty triage, mass casualty decontamination, and …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness is set to resume development of its new Medical Response to Overwhelming, No-Notice Trauma Events Course.
The center, along with the Department of Health and Human Services, hosted a working group meeting in late 2019 to begin outlining the offering. The working group included a volunteer team of medical professionals …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness will hold the final pilot of its four-day Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring (DREAM) course later this month.
DREAM will train responders from state, local, tribal and territorial agencies to assess, monitor and track health effects to emergency responders and community members before, during and after incidents involving chemical, …
Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC) Executive Director Forrest Weider represented the NDPC at the 2021 NACo Annual Conference in July. The National Association of Counties (NACo) conference brought together county elected and appointed officials from across the country in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
At the conference, Mr. Weider engaged local, regional, and national …
Classes at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week were filled with National and Air National Guardsmen.
In the Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) Course, 12 of the 14 slots were filled by members of a New Mexico Army National Guard medical detachment.
A mixture of Army and Air National Guardsmen were in …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness reached a significant milestone earlier this month when it issued its 10,000th virtual instructor-led training (VILT) completion certificate in 2021.
At that pace, VILT deliveries will become the type of CDP training with the second largest number of course completions annually.
The form of CDP training with the most annual …
