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College buys small UAV for first-responder training program

By   /  August 16, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

Charlotte, North Carolina-based UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corporation, has been selected by Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio to provide the company’s small unmanned aerial system (SUAS) for use in the college’s training program for first responders. The system, to be delivered later this year, is being developed and produced [...]

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A Tribute to EMS Professionals

By   /  May 24, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

by: Rich Serino, Deputy Administrator, FEMA Earlier today, I spoke at the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Conference in California in recognition of National EMS Week. It was great event, and it underscored the important role that EMS professionals play in our communities. In my speech today, I noted how the EMS field is a [...]

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Adding One More Tool to the Responder’s Tool Box

By   /  February 17, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

From the FEMA Blog Wednesday morning, February 8, at 9:57 a.m. CST, as most people were probably going about their workday, a historic event happened at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Ala. At that moment, the first group of state, local, and tribal responders went through live agent training inside CDP’s Chemical, Ordnance, [...]

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On-demand emergency responder training

By   /  January 9, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

New service allows fire, police, EMS, and military to provide their training video library through an on-demand delivery to any television; the service allows responders to select a video through a graphical menu on the television screen and then play, pause, restart, rewind or fast forward the video A service providing emergency responder training via [...]

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New tool helps visualize post-event disaster environments

By   /  August 22, 2011  /  General News, Training, Exercise and Drills  /  No Comments

Using iPad mobile devices, emergency preparedness officials and first responders participating last month in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE-11), were able, for the first time, to make use of a new, science-based software tool that allows them to view and modify accurate models of building damage and other post-event disaster effects. [...]

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