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 …
A working group gathered at the Center of Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week to begin outlining the center’s next Tribal Nations Training Week.
The annual event is the largest training event of its type in the Department of Homeland Security, usually attended by about 300 tribal nation responders.
The working group, comprised of responders from …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its quarterly report on the effectiveness of its training during the first quarter of 2022.
The report, taken from student surveys and a comparison of pre-tests and final exams, gauges the degree to which students found the training to be appealing and relevant as well as whether …