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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 has released August resident training numbers.
CDP releases August resident training numbers

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released the number of course completions recorded in August by those who trained on its campus in Anniston, Alabama.

CDP released its training effectiveness report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023.
CDP releases 3rd quarter training survey results

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently released its training effectiveness report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023.

Students learn about color-coded triage tags during Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) training.
Snapshot: HMO Decon Exercise

Students learn about color-coded triage tags during Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) training this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP hosts Caribbean Area focus group to discuss training needs.
Caribbean Area focus group discusses training needs

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week is hosting a focus group to gain feedback about their training needs from first responder, emergency management, healthcare and public health professionals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

CDP Superintendent Tony Russell keynote speaker at NNALEA conference.
CDP Superintendent keynote speaker at NNALEA conference

FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness Superintendent Tony Russell provided a keynote address this week at the National Native American Law Enforcement Association’s (NNALEA) annual training conference.

The CDP is updating its Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management course, better aligning it with current healthcare emergency management practices, modern regulatory requirements and lessons learned from recent disasters, including the COVID-19 pande
CDP updating FRAME Course

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is currently updating its Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) Course.

Snapshot: Healthcare Leader training
Snapshot: Healthcare Leader training

Students in this week’s Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course (HCL) respond to a simulated incident by standing up an emergency operations center.

CDP is developing a course about the impacts climate and weather can have on disaster response.
CDP storyboarding climate-related course

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is beginning development of a course about the impacts climate and weather can have on disaster response, especially in underserved communities.

CDP Instructor Angela Samples.
In the Spotlight: Angela Samples

A hazardous materials instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) since 2009, Angela Samples has nearly 500 entries into the live toxic agent training bays on the site.

CDP has seats available in upcoming HMA course.
Seats available in upcoming HMA course

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has seat openings in a Hazardous Materials Awareness (HMA) class scheduled November 27-30.