Firefighters from four countries attended the 23rd Annual Spring Fire Training School at Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station. The school, held March 6-11, drew 329 firefighters from as far away as Colombia, Chile and Canada, as well as Texas and at least 10 other states.
Officials from the West Midlands, U.K., Fire and Rescue visited TEEX Disaster Preparedness and Response recently, where they were able to observe a mobilization of Texas Task Force 1, which was staged in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex for the Super Bowl.
Robots and researchers from Japan, the United States and the U.S. military will converge on Disaster City® in College Station, Texas, on Tuesday, March 8, to conduct two days of underground mine rescue and tunnel exploration experiments.
A new minefield training grid for the TEEX Explosives Safety and Security Training Program was inaugurated during the Demining class held last week on the Riverside Campus. The field expands the program’s capabilities in the area of training in humanitarian demining.
The city and county of Los Angeles have tapped TEEX to help them train and prepare approximately 150 emergency responders who will form four Incident Management Teams to serve approximately 14 million Los Angeles area residents. The jurisdictional Enhanced Incident Management/Unified Command training program is conducted at TEEX’s Emergency Operations Training Center (EOTC) in College Station.
Forty-five firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department have completed a customized contract class in “Shipboard Firefighting for Land-based Firefighters” conducted by the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) at Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station.
TEEX is assisting Texas A&M University in developing an integrated, comprehensive emergency management plan that can be used as a model and resource for universities nationwide.
Approximately 4,500 pedestrians are killed in vehicle collisions each year, and TEEX and the Texas Transportation Institute are collaborating to train law enforcement officers who investigate these crashes.
Twenty-four members of the 72nd Civil Support Team (CST) from Lincoln, Neb., recently completed a week of training and hands-on scenario-based exercises at TEEX’s Disaster City®.
Nearly 100 members of the Texas Task Force 1 red team mobilized to the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex on Feb. 5, remained on standby for the duration of the Super Bowl XLV, and demobilized on Monday, Feb. 7.
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