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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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Statistical Support Specialist Marshay Clayborn.
In the Spotlight: Marshay Clayborn

Marshay Clayborn has supported training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) for more than two decades.

CDP has released web-based training numbers for April.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for April

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released the number of web-based course completions it recorded during April.

CDP will offer a week of on-campus train-the-trainer courses September 10-15.
CDP Instructor Development Training Week scheduled

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will offer a week of on-campus train-the-trainer courses September 10-15.

Responders learn to identify chemical and explosive hazards in this week’s LERA course.
Snapshot: Hazardous material identification

Responders learn to identify chemical and explosive hazards in this week’s Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE Incidents (LERA) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP continues training bay enhancements at COBRA Training Facility.
COBRA continues training bay enhancements

The Center for Domestic Preparedness this week installed several props in the training bays of its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF).

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of September.
CDP releases list of September resident course offerings

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of September, which includes a week devoted to train-the-trainer classes.

CDP, with its history of CBRNE training would play key role in potential CBRNE Center of Excellence.
CDP would play key role in potential CBRNE Center of Excellence

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is looking to cultivate its partnerships with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute and develop a virtual Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Radiological and Explosive (CBNRE) Center of Excellence (CoE).

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

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

Responders decontaminate ‘patients’ during this week’s EMO Course.
Snapshot: CBRNE exercise

Responders decontaminate ‘patients’ during this week’s Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

COBRATF passes annual CASARM audit with ‘no nonconformances and several commendations.’
COBRATF passes annual CASARM audit

The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) recently passed its annual Chemical Agent Standard Analytical Reference Material (CASARM) audit with ‘no nonconformances and several commendations.’