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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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Medical responders credit CDP for successful COVID-19 response
Medical responders credit CDP for successful COVID-19 response

Two doctors who were among the first healthcare professionals to deal with the coronavirus in the United States attribute training at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness for their team’s effective response in early March to the outbreak of the disease in their community.

Public Communication Concerns during Social Distancing
Public Communication Concerns during Social Distancing

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has produced a podcast which tells public information officers and other responders how to safely and effectively communicate with their audiences while adhering to social distancing and other COVID-19 practices recommended by the CDC.

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CDP releases February training numbers

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its training numbers for the month of February.

The CDP's new Instructor Training Course is only 32 hours but more intense than the previous offering.
CDP welcomes ‘revamped’ Instructor Training Course

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week unveiled an updated version of its popular Instructor Training Course.

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CDP statement regarding training

The CDP mission to support the nationwide response to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been cancelled.

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Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL officials train at Center for Domestic Preparedness

About 40 officials from Birmingham and Jefferson County, AL, participated in Incident Command training in late February at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.

The Center’s new Chemical Operations Specialist Course is nearly complete.
CDP closer to training those in new special chemical operations program

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is putting the final touches on a new course that will be part of a chemical operations support specialist program run by the agency’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Office.

Hazardous material evidence collection training at the CDP
CDP releases January training numbers

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its training numbers for the month of January.

The DREAM course will teach students how to properly monitor people exposed to any number of hazardous substances.
CDP kicks off second ‘DREAM’ course

The Center for Domestic Preparedness kicked off the second pilot of its new Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring or DREAM course February 10.

Responders check a ‘patient’ for contaminants during an exercise as part of Tribal Training Week 2019.
Registration numbers balloon for Tribal Training Week 2020

More than 300 responders have registered to attend this year’s Tribal Training Week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.