Mississippi city using CDP training to enhance disaster preparedness

A city in northern Mississippi is using the free training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to ensure the small community is ready for any kind of natural or manmade disaster it may encounter.  

The port city of Aberdeen, on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, is home to only 5,000 residents but it’s creating what it calls an ‘emergency preparedness cabinet.’

As part of that process, Aberdeen recently sent several of its employees to train at the CDP, including city clerk Melissa Moore, city inspector Roy Haynes and public works director Richard Boone. Additional employees are scheduled to attend CDP resident courses later this month and in December.

An article in the Monroe (Miss.) Journal about the city’s efforts quotes Aberdeen Mayor Charles Scott as saying his team is “… getting the best training” the CDP offers.

The training is also timely.

According to the article, the city will soon conduct its first-ever mass casualty exercise.

CDP training for state, local, tribal and territorial responders is fully funded by the Department of Homeland Security to include transportation, lodging and meals.

To learn more, visit the CDP web site at https://cdp.dhs.gov/.