Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) A-Team Training

Participants interested in joining the State's Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) A-Team should apply for the training online at the CDEM training page. There two application documents can be downloaded and will require sign-off by your local jurisdiction and the State to join the team. For specific information regarding the training, the process or the documents linked above, contact Robyn.Knappe@state.co.us.

NIMS/ICS "Train the Trainer" Application Documents

To facilitate the info and application documents for the upcoming NIMS ICS Position Specific Trainings, we have posted them online on the CDEM training page. NIMS ICS Position Specific training is designed to provide all-hazards competencies and behaviors for the eight Command and General Staff positions and select unit leader positions.  The competencies in the training are focused around the ability of the student to assume the position responsibilities, lead assigned personnel, communicate effectively, and to ensure the completion of assigned tasks to meet identified objectives for the position. NIMS ICS Position Specific training should be completed by personnel who desire to eventually be certified as a member of a Type III Incident Management Team (IMT) or who desire to seek credentials/certification in an ICS Command and General Staff or Unit Leader position.

For more information and for the application documents, contact Robyn.Knappe@state.co.us

2009 Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) National Workshop

Over the past two days, a joint team of State, Pueblo Chemical Depot and local Pueblo emergency management personnel attended the national workshop for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) in Salt Lake City, UT. In addition to the subject-matter expert panels and discussions on how to meet the technical, programmatic and information challenges associated with managing the destruction of the agent/munitions remaining at Pueblo Chemical Depot, the Colorado team also met with their Kentucky counterparts to share unique ideas and strategies. As nationwide destruction activities comes to a close, Colorado and Kentucky will be the two remaining states with ongoing destruction activities extending into the latter half of this decade, once the new facilities and processes being developed to facilitate the agent/material destruction are brought online and their campaigns completed. The workshop provided a unique forum for the exchange of ideas and approaches to handling destruction activities and preparedness initiatives that have dual-use applicability to emergency management as a whole, including specific focus on social media (yes... Twitter... ohhhh... still winged it in there...@COEmergency or www.twitter.com/COEmergency) and public warning methodologies, applicability of computer simulation systems for wider, all-hazards threat conditions.

Any comments, additions, or other suggestions you have for this report or on the DEM site? Don't hesitate to contact me at (303) 472-4087 or at brandon.williams@state.co.us