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.
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.
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
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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CDP, OBP partnership helps boost training for responders
The partnership between FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Office of Bombing Prevention provides added value to the training many responders receive at the CDP.
CDP finalizing VILT for LE leaders
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is putting the final touches on its new Public Order and Public Safety – Executive (POPS-E) Course, which is scheduled for release later this year.
Snapshot: Product Containment
Students secure a valve on a liquid container during this week’s Hazardous Materials Technician Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness. Responders learn several product containment techniques in the five-day course, which prepares them for technician-level hazmat certification.
In the Spotlight: Michael Dunlevy
Since 2015, Michael Dunlevy has been an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, specializing in pre-hospital emergency response to mass casualty incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive materials.
CDP improving infrastructure, facilities
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently completed two sizable paving projects and is gearing up to begin another.
CDP provides emergency management training through distance learning
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness offers responders a library of self-paced, web-based, training offerings which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.
Snapshot: LERA
Responders speak with ‘victims’ of a hazardous materials incident in this week’s Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE Incidents (LERA) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.
Work continues on COBRA enhancements
Work continued this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness on several projects to update and upgrade its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility.
Instructor Development Training Week scheduled for September
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will offer a week of train-the-trainer courses September 11-16, which will prepare attendees to deliver select CDP training to other responders in their communities.
CDP grad relies on training in tornado response
When an EF-4 tornado struck Winterset, Iowa, on March 5, Diogenes Ayala, director of the Madison County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, relied on training he received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in his response to the storm.