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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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Students discuss the use of protective equipment in this week’s Hazardous Materials Awareness Course.
Snapshot: Protective Actions

Students discuss the use of protective equipment in this week’s Hazardous Materials Awareness Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP hosted a presentation Wednesday by Charles Person, the youngest member of the original ‘Freedom Riders.’
CDP hosts ‘Freedom Rider’ Charles Person

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) hosted a presentation Wednesday by Charles Person, the youngest member of the original ‘Freedom Riders.’

CDP Instructor Keshawn Long
In the Spotlight: Keshawn Long

Keshawn Long has been a hazardous materials instructor since 2017, but his hazmat experience began during service in the Alabama Air National Guard (ANG).

CDP started work this week on three new construction projects.
CDP starts campus improvement projects

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) started work this week on three new construction projects.

The CDP's Emergency Medical Response Awareness for CBRNE Incidents dL Course teaches students about caring for people who’ve been exposed to CBRNE materials.
CDP offers online emergency medical response course

The CDP offers the Emergency Medical Response Awareness for CBRNE Incidents dL Course, which teaches students about caring for people who’ve been exposed to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) materials.

Students are shown how to properly operate radiation detection equipment during the HT Course.
Snapshot: Radiation detection

Students are shown how to properly operate radiation detection equipment during the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) Course this week on the CDP campus.

CDP and TEEX partnered this week to create an enhanced training experience for their students.
CDP, TEEX hold joint exercise

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) partnered this week to create an enhanced training experience for their students.

Students can now get campus information by touching one of three new information monitors on campus.
Students can now get campus information ‘on demand’

Students attending resident training at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) can now get many of their questions about the center and surrounding area answered simply by touching one of three new information monitors on campus.

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

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

Alumni from the CDP were among those ensuring the safety of fans and players for Super Bowl LVII.
CDP grads ensure safety of fans for Super Bowl LVII

When the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles faced off Sunday in Glendale, Arizona, for Super Bowl LVII, alumni from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) were among those ensuring the safety of fans and players at the event and in the surrounding communities.