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 …
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 …
BATON ROUGE — As summer ends and Louisiana schools prepare to return to campus, LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education (NCBRT/ACE) has been lending its expertise in campus safety preparedness and response to primary, secondary, and higher education institutions.
During the last week of July, LSU NCBRT/ACE conducted four deliveries …
Twenty-one years ago this month Gavin Donnelly played a role in post 9-11 evidence processing. Six years before that, in 1995, he helped process the scene in Oklahoma City after the Alfred P. Murrah building bombing. This month, he celebrates his one year anniversary working for New Mexico Tech, where he serves as EMRTC’s Training …
Authored by Meadow Crise
A new EMRTC course is providing educators with the tools to act quickly in an emergency event.
The FEMA SME review pilot of the Surviving Bombing Incidents for Educators (SBIE) course took place at EMRTC on June 21, 2022. Ten educator participants were in attendance. On average it takes 7-14 …
On June 22 2022, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt issued an executive order aimed at increasing safety in schools. The order, Mission: Secure Oklahoma Schools, came in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and requires that troopers in the state’s Department of Public Safety must complete certified active shooter emergency response training by …
First responder training course participants benefit from the expertise of several individuals as training courses are planned, developed, and taught. Subject matter experts, course developers and consultants, and course instructors possess decades’ worth of experience and an incredible amount of specific knowledge. One of these experts who has played a key role in multiple EMRTC-offered …
