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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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CDP offers web-based OBP train-the-trainer course.
CDP offers web-based OBP train-the-trainer course

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.

CDP partners with others for 2024 Tribal Nations Training Week.
CDP partners with others for 2024 Tribal Nations Training Week

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will again partner with several other federal and federally-funded agencies to conduct its annual Tribal Nations Training Week, which is scheduled March 9-16, 2024, on the CDP campus.

Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course
Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course

Students learn to inspect, assemble, and use a self-contained breathing apparatus this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has seat openings in four courses scheduled during December.
Seats available in December courses

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has seat openings in four courses scheduled during December.

CDP Instructor Ann Sports.
In the Spotlight: Ann Sports

Ann Sports, an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2015, has over 30 years of public health experience.

CDP staff deployed earlier this fall to assist FEMA relief missions in Florida, following Hurricane Idalia.
CDP staffers assist Idalia survivors

Four employees from the Center for Domestic Preparedness deployed earlier this fall to assist FEMA relief missions in Florida, following Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on August 30.

CDP hosts site visit by Texas medical executives from Memorial Hermann Hospital System.
CDP hosts site visit by Texas medical executives

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) hosted executives from the Memorial Hermann Hospital System for a site visit in mid-September.

Students practice sampling hazardous materials in this week’s HT Course.
Snapshot: Hazmat sampling

Students practice sampling hazardous materials in this week’s Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

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

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

CDP welcomes Joint Field Office to campus.
CDP to welcome Joint Field Office to campus

The Joint Field Office (JFO) for two disasters which impacted central and northern Alabama earlier this year will soon call the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) home.