Classes from two NDPC partners are featured in the Winter 2022-23 issue of FEMA’s TPP Times. Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center (TEEX/NERRTC)’s course, PER-353: Active Shooter Incident Management, provides a framework to manage active shooter event response. Additionally, many classes from LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and …
The Tactical Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents (TRSBI) course provides law enforcement tactical officers and staff with the knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to suicide bombing incidents. While the residential version of the course has been offered for more than a decade at Playas, a mobile course is currently being piloted.
Developing a …
EMRTC recently provided a customized training course for more than 30 first responders in American Samoa. The first responders work for Port Administration, Public Safety, Customs, Homeland Security, and LBJ Hospital and Department of Health. The 5-day training spanned multiple programs including Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents (MPRBI) offered jointly with Texas A&M) …
Participants in EMRTC’s courses for first responders benefit from witnessing detonation events as part of field labs. Field experience allows participants to connect classroom content to an event they see, hear, and feel firsthand. Currently under development, field labs will be enhanced even more through the use of virtual reality.
EMRTC’s broad goal is to …
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 Basics of WebEOC (Emergency Operations Center), which teaches students the essentials of the emergency management system, including its mapping, communications and other tools. The …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is continuing to reduce energy consumption on its campus and promote sustainable energy conservation practices among members of its workforce.
Its Climate Adaptation Initiative efforts support FEMA’s strategic goal related to climate resilience, which says the agency will increase ‘climate literacy’ of the emergency management community and lead a …
Though she already had more than 20 years’ experience in emergency management when she took the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) Course in April, Lisa Screeton came out of the training with a greater understanding of what to expect in a mass casualty event.
“I wish every emergency manager …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has contingency plans for practically any situation which could alter resident training and that includes construction in one of its most popular on-campus training areas.
When training in the live agent training bays at the CDP’s Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) was suspended earlier this year, …
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, …