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Students from Piedmont University learn to triage and treat patients while wearing PPE during HERO course.
Snapshot: Emergency Response Training

Students from Piedmont University learn to triage and treat patients while wearing personal protective equipment during the Healthcare Emergency Response Operations for CBRNE Incidents (HERO) Course this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP Hazardous Material Operations (HMO) course.
Snapshot: Hazmat Training

First responders learn technical decontamination procedures during Hazardous Material Operations training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness. The CDP’s five-day HMO course provides responders the information and skills required of operations-level HAZMAT technicians.

CDP Field Force Extrication (FFE) course.
Snapshot: Extrication Training

The Center for Domestic Preparedness' Field Force Extrication (FFE) course is designed to teach responders techniques to defeat various devices protestors use to illegally block streets and buildings, prolonging public and private service disruptions and public freedom of movement.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the months of April and May.
CDP releases resident course schedule for April, May

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the months of April and May.

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A law enforcement instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2021, Randall Lambert has a 30-year background in law enforcement, including experience with hazardous materials, SWAT, and field force.
In the Spotlight: Randall Lambert

A law enforcement instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2021, Randall Lambert has a 30-year background in law enforcement, including experience with hazardous materials, SWAT, and field force.

Spring tornadoes this year heavily impacted several states and hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors. Many of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.
CDP grads assist survivors following severe storms

Spring tornadoes this year heavily impacted several states and hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors. Many of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.

The HMO Refresher Training refreshes responders on response actions for hazardous materials incidents.
CDP offers HMO refresher through distance learning

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. Among the offerings is Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Refresher Training.

Students set up protective masks, prior to fit testing, this week in the CDP's RP Course.
Snapshot: RP Course

Students set up protective masks, prior to fit testing, this week in the CDP's Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.

The CDP this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for May.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for May

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

CDP courses re-accredited by IACET.
CDP courses re-accredited by IACET

All Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP)-developed courses eligible for accreditation were recently re-accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

CDP has seat openings in some of the on-campus train-the-trainer courses scheduled September 10-15.
Seats available for CDP’s Instructor Development Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has seat openings in some of the on-campus train-the-trainer courses scheduled September 10-15.

The CDP recently established a dedicated training area for students attending its HERO Course.
CDP creates dedicated HERO course training area

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently established a dedicated training area for students attending its Healthcare Emergency Response Operations for CBRNE Incidents (HERO) Course.

The CDP and DHS’ Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office this week released BioWatch Overview.
BioWatch distance learning course available

The CDP and DHS’ Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office this week released BioWatch Overview, a 30-minute distance learning course which explains the purpose and importance of the BioWatch Program.

Soldiers with the Missouri NG practice field screening suspicious substances during this week’s HEC Course.
Snapshot: Field screening

Soldiers with the Missouri National Guard practice field screening suspicious substances during this week’s Evidence Collection in a Hazardous Materials Environment (HEC) Course on the CDP campus.