FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) today hosted a group of Indonesian government officials.
The officials are part of the county’s National Disaster Management Agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana) and visited the CDP to see firsthand how it trains responders from across the nation to both prepare for and respond to natural and man-made disasters.…
Thanks to training received at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), staff of the Indian Health Service in Chinle, Arizona, are better prepared for future epidemics and pandemics.
Owen Le Beau, Chinle Service Unit’s Emergency Management Specialist, says more than 300 staff members of the organization, including one-third of its initial COVID-19 Incident Management Team, …
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The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) YouTube training channel offers first responders several just-in-time microlearning offerings.
Microlearning takes narrow topics and packages the information into concise products (short videos and podcasts) for those who are time-constrained or unable to devote time to a full class. Individuals can also view or listen to them on a …
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 …
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 …
