Emergency managers and officials in Florida have been learning to identify gaps in training and capabilities to meet the National Preparedness Goal through a specialized course, “Readiness: Training Identification Preparedness Planning” (RTIPP). The course helps communities across the state identify and fill preparedness training gaps at a local level by assembling a team, developing a…
Twenty-two new peace officers graduated from the Central Texas Police Academy in June 6, after 18 weeks of comprehensive training. Assistant Police Chief Jessica Robledo of the Austin Police Department delivered the keynote address at the graduation ceremony, which was held at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum’s Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. Most of…
A new initiative at Nicholls State University will help to meet the safety and health needs of the growing south Louisiana oil and gas industry. On April 30, the university signed an agreement with TEEX to be designated as a TEEX Cooperative Learning Center (CLC), authorizing them to teach TEEX safety and health classes as…
The first Infrastructure and Safety Summit hosted by the city of McAllen, Texas, attracted a record 630 people for one-stop workforce training and professional development in a wide variety of disciplines on March 24-28.Thirty-three courses were offered at reduced tuition fees during the TEEX training event. The training summit was designed to assist both entry-level…
Ten officers from the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority Emergency Services Unit (ESU) attended a special Passenger Rail Rescue course on April 14-18, 2014, at Disaster City®. The course ended with a night exercise requiring students to rescue “moulaged” victims from a derailed passenger train.The training exercise was designed to provide a variety of difficult rescue…
Search and rescue in a contaminated environment was the focus of the Operational Readiness Exercise for the Texas Task Force 1 blue team at Disaster City® on April 25-28. The scenario was designed as a gas pipeline explosion with mass casualties, and the exercise involved performing search and rescue in a radiologically and chemically contaminated…
GeoSuite®, a software application originally developed for the military, is the newest technology asset in the Texas Task Force 1 equipment cache. The digital tool was modified and customized for urban search and rescue operations by General Dynamics, and Texas Task Force 1 is the first urban search and rescue team to deploy it operationally….
The international reputation of TEEX’s fire training reaches many corners of the globe, not the least of them, the coastal city of Bintulu, Malaysia. Officials with Bintulu Emergency & Safety Training Center first called on TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute (ESTI) five years ago, seeking advice on the construction of a fire training facility. Once…
Two Texas Army National Guard helicopters landed at Brayton Fire Training Field on April 1 as part of the National Helicopter Search & Rescue Workshop sponsored by Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) and the Texas Army National Guard. Attendees represented government, military and civilian search-and-rescue organizations from more than 30 states as far away as…
The new online Death Investigation course launched by Public Safety & Security on March 1 has enrolled over 2,000 students in just six weeks. Kristin Anthony, an Instructional Design Specialist at TEEX, designed the course. “It’s all about context and relevance,” said Anthony. “That’s how we engage adult learners.” The decision to convert the course…
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