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FDNY, Marines train for chemical attack

NEW YORK – The New York City Fire Department and the Marines’ Chemical Biological Incident Response Force responded to a simulated exploded bus, a subway chemical attack, a building collapse and two IED attacks, April 22.

A FDNY firefighter sprays water on simulated victims of a chemical attack in the subway, as Marines from the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) lead them out of the subway, at FDNY Fire Academy on Randall's Island, N.Y, April 22. FDNY and Marines from the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) joined together for a training exercise after a weeklong training evolution between the two units. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton)

The all-day exercise was the culmination of a weeklong training evolution at FDNY Fire Academy on Randall’s Island pairing Marines and firefighters. The Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), based in Indian Head, Md., has a history with the FDNY going back to the unit’s founding in 1996. Deputy Chief and Marine veteran Raymond Downey helped develop the original training for the unit. After he died in the World Trade Center rescue effort, their training facility was named after Downey.  Full article: US NorthCom

Resources for Emergency Planning for Schools

Emergency Planning resources from the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. 

This page provides information that can help school leaders plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents and terrorist acts. For more information about what families and communities can do to be ready for an emergency, please visit School Resources

Largest full-scale exercise ever at Disaster City® this weekend

With ongoing violence overseas and international catastrophes around the globe, Texas’ elite search and rescue team – Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) – will hone its skills in preparation for future responses by participating in a Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) this weekend in Disaster City® in College Station, TX. The 80-member TX-TF1 Red Team will be joined by more than 220 international search and rescue experts along with 200 medical responders for the two-day event.

This is the largest exercise of this type ever hosted in Disaster City. Members of the teams will face a variety of rescue situations at multiple venues within Disaster City resulting from a mock explosion. A situation of this type is easily simulated by the venues in Disaster City and will utilize the same skills necessary to respond to such an incident.

Additional details at:

http://www.teex.org/teex.cfm?pageid=teexresc&area=teex&storyid=991&templateid=23

Aggies earn fifth cyber defense regional win

A team of Texas A&M Aggies won the Sixth Annual Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) in March.

This is Texas A&M’s fifth win of the Southwestern Regional Competition. The team is now preparing for the national competition to be held April 16-18 in San Antonio.  See full article at:

http://engineering.tamu.edu/news/index.php/2010/04/02/aggies-earn-fifth-cyber-defense-regional-win/