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An instructor demonstrates the use of thermal imaging equipment during this week’s Hazardous Materials Technician Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its number of web-based course completions for December.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has completed a much-anticipated web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.

A program specialist in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Training and Education Directorate, Charles ‘Bill’ Reneau has more than three decades of experience in public health, emergency management and health systems performance.

Participants in this year’s Tribal Nations Training Week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness will be able to choose from 16 web-based courses in addition to in-person training offered at the center.

Students learn to use radiation detection equipment during Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.

Responders are reminded the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ annual Tribal Nations Training Week, March 5-12, will include eight courses on the center’s campus in Anniston, Alabama.

Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness is in the process of converting its extensive library of Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) offerings to web-based distance learning courses.