Its a typical day in Needland the unluckiest place on earth where an F3 tornado just struck the downtown and convention center. Fortunately, the simulated incident is all part of a training scenario for emergency managers at TEEX’s Emergency Operations Training Center in College Station.
TEEX announced that the agency will receive $22 million for its National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC), which provides specialized homeland security and preparedness training nationwide.
The State of Tennessee is taking steps to ensure hundreds of healthcare workers are well-prepared for the proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, in case of a serious disease outbreak. And they have called on TEEX to provide the training.
The Navajo Nation Department of Emergency Management, event staff and CERT teams worked together to ensure the safety and security of the officials and attendees at the Navajo Nation Presidential Inauguration ceremony in May. TEEX training provided to the Navajo Nation since 2013 helped them prepare for the event.
To survive a disaster, minutes count and so do preparation and training. An innovative TEEX program demonstrates the basics of search and rescue techniques for citizens and community-based groups nationwide. Search and Rescue in Community Disasters is taught by experienced urban search and rescue specialists at no cost to participants.
The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) is offering a new certification for sport security professionals in cooperation with TEEX’s National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center.
TEEX has rolled out a new online course designed to help Spanish-speaking emergency responders recognize a hazardous material incident, protect themselves, notify others and secure the incident scene.
Emergency responders in Arizona are better prepared for the upcoming Super Bowl XLIX thanks to training conducted by TEEX on critical infrastructure protection, threat and risk assessment, and sports and special events risk management, incident management, and evacuation exercises.
Training in proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, has taken on a new sense of urgency with the recent Ebola outbreak. In response, TEEX and its partners in the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium are providing PPE training at no cost to emergency responders, Customs and Border Protection officers and personnel who work at U.S. ports of entry, including airports, seaports and rail stations.
When a group of emergency responders at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) responded to a mock earthquake in Alabama recently, they called in their on-scene reports to an incident command post hundreds of miles away in Texas. This may be the future of incident management, according to the training team running the TEEX portion of the joint exercise. The groups in Anniston, AL, and College Station, TX, were linked through a unique computer simulation training tool called the Emergency Management*Exercise System (EM*ES).
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