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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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Congressional staffers visit CDP campus to see firsthand how it trains responders from across the nation.
Congressional staffers visit CDP campus

A group of congressional staff members visited FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) Monday to see firsthand how it trains responders from across the nation to both prepare for and respond to natural and man-made disasters.

Healthcare Leadership students discuss a patient’s care during an Integrated Capstone Event (ICE).
Snapshot: ICE

Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course students discuss a patient’s care during an Integrated Capstone Event (ICE) on the Center for Domestic Preparedness campus.

Law Enforcement focus of upcoming train-the-trainer courses.
Law Enforcement focus of upcoming train-the-trainer courses

Law enforcement courses make up three of the seven training opportunities during the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP) Instructor Training Week scheduled for September 11-16.

CDP Instructor, Greg Allen.
In the Spotlight: Greg Allen

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.

CDP supports disaster response training of FEMA employees.
CDP supports disaster response training of FEMA employees

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.

East Tennessee Fire Captain touts value of CDP training.
Fire Captain touts value of CDP training

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 HEC course.
Snapshot: HazMat survey

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.

CDP continues work on COBRA enhancements.
CDP updating COBRA training scenarios

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.

CDP recently launched its Public Order and Public Safety – Executive (POPS-E) Course.
CDP releases new law enforcement VILT

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

CDP releases its non-resident and indirect training numbers for June.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for June

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