We can only hope if there ever is a WMD moment in Portland, the response is better than this terrorism exercise was. Toward that end, there’s a new opportunity for city employees wanting to bone up on WTF to do if there’s a WMD in PDX.
According to this email below that employees received yesterday from the city’s Office of Emergency Management, the office is offering a three-hour WMD awareness course on July 30 developed by the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium. The class size is 25 students and participants will get a certificate from the U.S. Office of Domestic Preparedness.
UPDATE: In case anybody’s worried that the class indicates there’s some new threat out there, don’t be. Mark Chubb, the emergency management office’s operations manager, tells us this morning that the class — which has already filled its 25 slots — is offered fairly routinely as a condition of federal grants requirements. “It’s not because we perceive some major event in the area,” Chubb says.
From: Maca, Bob
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:17 PM
To: Citywide All Employees Distribution List
Subject: Weapons of Mass Destruction Course
Attention all city employees the Portland Office of Emergency Management is offering the AWR 160 Weapons of Mass Destruction Course.
As city employees any one of us could be the first one on scene or be directly effected by events caused by terrorists or individuals who are anti-government and believe violence will resolve their problems.
This course developed by the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), the WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Awareness-Level Training Course is a 3-hour program that provides emergency responders with awareness-level education. on recognition, avoidance, isolation, and notification techniques in a WMD environment. The course covers prevention and deterrence and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) hazards.
Date: July 30th
Time: 9:00 – 1200
Location: Bureau of Emergency Communications, 9911 SE Bush, upstairs classroom
Class size: 25 students
Costs: Free
TOPICS COVERED:
● Prevention, Recognition, and Deterrence
● Avoidance, Notification, and Isolation
● Biological Agents
● Chemical Agents
● Radiological Agents
● Explosive Devices
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This course is open to all city employees.
INSTRUCTOR:
The instructor for this course will be Bob Maca, a Training Specialist in the Portland Office of Emergency Management. He has an A.A.S in Disaster Preparedness from the Community College of the Air Force, and a B.S. in Workforce Development/Adult Education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He has worked in the Weapons of Mass Destruction career field for over 20 years and has taught this class numerous times.
COURSE COMPLETION
Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a certificate from the U.S. Office of Domestic Preparedness.
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Tags: domestic preparedness, Office of Emergency Management, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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