CDP hosting 2024 Hurricane Theme Week

It’s Hurricane Theme Week this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

The week is geared at emergency management personnel in Florida and other hurricane prone areas and features four courses – Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents (HCL), Hospital Emergency Response Operations for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT), Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations and Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID).

An Integrated Capstone Event (ICE) for those in the HCL, HERT and HID courses is also planned. ICEs are comprehensive exercises at the end of a training week where students from multiple courses and disciplines work together to respond to one or more simulated incidents patterned after recent real-world events.

More than 140 healthcare and emergency response professionals are attending  the annual theme week.

The 2024 hurricane season begins June 1 and will run through Nov. 30.

Though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has not released its forecast for 2024, C​olorado State University's meteorology team is forecasting 23 tropical storms, 11 of which will become hurricanes and five of which will be major hurricanes.

Major hurricanes have winds of at least 111 mph and can reach speeds of more than 180 mph.