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Responders practice skills analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination in the HEC course.
Snapshot: Hazardous Evidence Collection

Responders practice skills in analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination during Evidence Collection in a Hazardous Materials Environment (HEC) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP to train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during Law Enforcement Theme Week.
Field force training a focus for Law Enforcement Theme Week at CDP

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama campus.

First responders prepare instruments & kits for use during hazardous materials detection exercise in HT course.
Snapshot: Detecting hazardous materials

First responders prepare instruments and kits for use during a hazardous materials detection exercise in the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response.
CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents, including those in hazardous environments, during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama, campus.

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Students learn about the legal considerations which may come into play during a response to a protest in the FFE Course.
Snapshot: Protest considerations

Students learn about the legal considerations which may come into play during a response to a protest in this week’s Field Force Extrication Tactics Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP may support World Cup 2026.
CDP may support World Cup 2026

When the World Cup comes to the U.S., Canada and Mexico in the summer of 2026, participants and spectators alike may have the Center to Domestic Preparedness (CDP) to thank for the safe execution of games played on U.S. soil.

CDP recently released a new, web-based biological incident response and recovery course.
CDP offers biological incident response planning course

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently released a new, web-based biological incident response and recovery course.

Students learn how to work in PPE during HMO training at FEMA’s CDP.
Snapshot: Hazmat PPE

Students learn how to work in personal protective equipment during Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) training at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

Brandon Fletcher has been an instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2022.
In the Spotlight: Brandon Fletcher

Brandon Fletcher has been part of the fire service since 2000 and an instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) since 2022.

CDP has seat openings in courses scheduled during February 2024.
Seats available in February courses

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has seat openings in courses scheduled during February 2024, including two iterations of its Field Force Operations (FFO) Course and one iteration each of its Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) and Incident Command: Capabilities, Planning and Response Actions for All-Hazards (IC) courses.

Students use radiation detection equipment to ensure a ‘patient’ has been properly decontaminated during HERT course.
Snapshot: Mass casualty exercise

Students use radiation detection equipment to ensure a ‘patient’ has been properly decontaminated during the Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) Course this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for October.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for October

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for October.

CDP grad assists hazmat incident caused by pileup on a Louisiana interstate.
CDP grad assists hazmat incident caused by pileup

Training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) helped a former graduate handle a hazardous material issue last month at the site of a deadly pileup on a Louisiana interstate.

The CDP's COBRATF Biological Material Lab recently passed DHS CAPO inspection.
CDP passes DHS inspection

The CDP’s Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) recently passed an inspection of its Biological Material Lab by the Department of Homeland Security’s Compliance Assurance Program Office (CAPO).