For decades, New Mexico Tech has been lighting up the sky in the small town of Socorro with its annual Fourth of July fireworks display. This tradition, which involves a full day filled with live music, food vendors, and activities for kids, brings together families from all over town as well as the university community. …
The United States has over one hundred Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 19 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These schools serve more than 300 thousand students each year. In the first few months of 2022, over one third of the nation’s HBCUs received one or more bomb threats to their campuses.…
As our nation grapples with increasing school safety concerns, one area where we can exert control is response training. Beyond first responders, school educators and staff can benefit from training in response to school bombing incidents. In the space between the moment an explosive event occurs and the arrival of emergency responders on the scene, …
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Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.
The incident involved more than 20 inmates from the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, who set several fires in a building.
According to reports, to safely restore order, the corrections officers used a …
When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.
Chances are good a number of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.
During …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has released a web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.
The resident course is a five-day operations-level offering which teaches responders how to analyze, plan and implement response actions for hazardous materials incidents. The course meets OSHA hazmat operations certification standards and is a pre-requisite for …
Acts of homegrown and domestic violent extremism have been on the rise over the last decade. In order to prepare state, local, tribal and territorial responders to defend their communities from these threats, Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education, or LSU NCBRT/ACE, is preparing to launch a new …
In February, subject matter experts from Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education (LSU NCBRT/ACE) delivered emergency preparedness presentations on a wide variety of manmade and natural threats for the school system of the United States Virgin Islands, or USVI, to the schools’ safety and security monitors.
LSU NCBRT/ACE …
The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) enhances the preparedness of state, local, territorial and tribal emergency responders to reduce the nation’s vulnerability to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, natural disasters, and other all-hazard, high-consequence events. The NDPC develops, delivers, and assesses response plans and provides training, technical assistance and exercises.
Since its inception …