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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Lights! Camera! Action! – Team filming promotional videos of CDP training
A four-member team of videographers from FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. is on the CDP campus this week, collecting footage of various aspects of the Center’s advanced responder training and interviewing CDP staff, instructors and students.
FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness featured in Homeland Security Today
The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ highly infectious disease training is featured in the Nov. 16 edition of Homeland Security Today.
CDP releases October training numbers
The CDP has released its training numbers for the month of October.
Online version of health sector preparedness course in works
Center for Domestic Preparedness course developers are currently storyboarding, or outlining, an online version of its popular Health Sector Emergency Preparedness course.
Preparation enables tribal community to weather power outages
While most communities in northern California were struggling through recent power outages, the tribal community of Blue Lake Rancheria was mostly operating normally, courtesy of stand-alone, solar-powered mini-electrical grids it had installed in preparation for such events.
CDP to train those in special chemical operations program
To better protect the public during chemical disasters, the Center for Domestic Preparedness is helping FEMA’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Office develop a Chemical Operations Support Specialist program.
CDP training evident in protest response near White House
When law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia recently untethered climate change protestors from a boat in the middle of a busy intersection, just two blocks away from the White House, they did so safely using tactics taught in the CDP’s Field Force Extrication Course.
Center for Domestic Preparedness to be featured in USA Today
An upcoming issue of USA Today will include a feature article about the Center for Domestic Preparedness.