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Students operate a hospital emergency operations center during a simulated mass casualty incident in HCL course.
Snapshot: Emergency Operations

Students operate a hospital emergency operations center during a simulated mass casualty incident in this week’s Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP Instructor Chad Hawkins.
In the Spotlight: Chad Hawkins

Chad Hawkins has been a hazardous materials instructor for the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) since 2017.

CDP offers online course in WebEOC basics.
CDP offers online course in WebEOC basics

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.

Students learn about types of respiratory masks and their fit testing procedures during RP course.
Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course

Students learn about types of respiratory masks and their fit testing procedures this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.

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

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for September.

CDP distance learning course teaches bomb material awareness.
Distance learning course teaches bomb material awareness

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.

Responders practice safely removing a protester from a device during the CDP’s FFE course.
Snapshot: FFE Course

Responders practice safely removing a protester from a device during the CDP’s Field Force Extrication Tactics (FFE) course.

CDP partnered with the Alabama Fire College Regional  Training Center to provide hazmat training to fire recruits.
CDP provides hazmat training to Alabama fire recruits

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) partnered with the Alabama Fire College’s Regional Training Center in Anniston last week to teach its Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course to 18 fire recruits.

Contract Non-resident and Indirect Training Lead Rebecca Carr.
In the Spotlight: Rebecca Carr

Rebecca Carr, the contract non-resident and indirect training lead at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), has held several positions in her 23-year career here.

CDP has released the  number of web-based course completions it recorded during March.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for September

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its number of web-based course completions for September.

CDP creating ‘Healthcare Provider Down’ video.
CDP creating ‘Healthcare Provider Down’ video

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is creating a video which shows healthcare providers how to safely evacuate a fellow provider who has become incapacitated while treating a patient with an infectious disease.

Responders participate in an exercise during the Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) Course.
Snapshot: Emergency Medical Operations

Responders participate in an exercise during this week’s Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP updates its Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID) Course.
CDP implements HID course updates

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently updated its Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID) Course.

CDP continues work on COBRA enhancements.
Work continues on COBRA enhancements

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will soon begin installing vinyl coverings to the walls of the training bays in its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF).