A training summit featuring 13 low-cost and no-cost courses will be held July 11-15 at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, TX, to provide area workers with access to professional development and CEU credits.
Sixteen-year-old Bretagne, the last known FEMA Search & Rescue Canine who served at Ground Zero, has died peacefully in Cypress, Texas. She deployed with her handler Denise Corliss and other members of Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) to the site of the World Trade Center in 2001.
Officials in South Carolina have formed a Pediatric Disaster Planning Coalition to improve preparedness for children involved in disaster, thanks, in part, to TEEX training in Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness.
The 43rd Veterinary Medical Detachment from Fort Hood deployed to Disaster City® to conduct a disaster exercise in animal decontamination in conjunction with the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team.
Healthcare personnel and emergency managers from the National Capital Region participated in an Integrated Capstone Event exercise in two locations simultaneously – Anniston, AL, and College Station, TX –via TEEX’s unique online simulation training tool called the Emergency Management*Exercise System (EM*ES).
Texas Task Force 1 was deployed for severe weather and flooding in the state, and worked with state response partners to rescue 27 people and 17 animals and to evacuate 435 individuals plus 62 animals to a safer location.
The Texas Forensic Science Academy has launched its latest online forensics course, Foundations of Forensic Photography, which is being offered at no cost through Sept. 30.
Fifty-three new firefighters recently graduated from the 12th Online Firefighter Recruit Academy at the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). They completed 335 hours of training online before traveling to College Station for an intensive 21-day firefighting “boot camp” at Brayton Fire Training Field.
Because of the 2013 bombings and recent terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris, security was tight at this year’s Boston Marathon. Among the agencies, departments and universities that trained public safety personnel supporting the marathon was TEEX’s National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC).
TEEX has opened a new 9,000-square-foot training facility in Houston to better serve small and mid-sized manufacturers in the Gulf Coast region.
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