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An instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) since 2016, Greg Allen is a retired fire chief who managed a hazardous materials team covering 12 counties.

While FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) teaches responders how to respond to a variety of hazardous events, it also provides administrative and logistical support to FEMA’s Incident Workforce Academy (FIWA) which ensures the agency’s 20,000 employees and reservists are prepared to support states, communities and survivors in the aftermath of disasters.

A captain for a volunteer fire department in East Tennessee says he used training received at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) when responding to multiple incidents, including wildfires earlier this year near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which impacted more than 100 structures and prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.

National Guardsmen practice surveying a staged crime scene during the start of hazardous materials evidence collection training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

The Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is busy developing scripts for new exercises it plans to incorporate into its refurbished training bays.

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently launched its Public Order and Public Safety – Executive (POPS-E) Course.

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

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is among the organizations being credited with ensuring an incident-free 2022 World Games earlier this month.

Law enforcement officers search the scene of a simulated hazardous material incident during this week’s Intermediate Hands-On Training for CBRNE Incidents: Law Enforcement Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of November.