Basic Emergency Response course in works

Course developers at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness are currently putting together a Basic Emergency Response Training Course.

The course, which will be an updated version of the center’s former four-day Technical Emergency Response Training offering, will include instruction on basic hazardous materials identification, scene survey and assessment, mass casualty triage, mass casualty decontamination, and personal and public protective measures.

The new course will be three days long and geared at entry-level responders who may be called upon to support mass casualty operations associated with a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident.

The developers say if all goes as planned, the course will be released as early as this fall.