Terrorism/Hazardous
Materials
Incident Response for Support
Personnel
Hazardous Materials Highway Transportation Exercise
School Terror Exercise
Biological Attack Practicum
Chemical Agent Exposure
Hazardous
Materials and Terrorism Awareness for Dispatchers and 911 Operators
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Incident Response for Support Personnel - 8
hrs
Incident Response for Support Personnel is designed
for individuals who do not typically respond to emergency incidents. The
target audience includes Amateur Radio Personnel, Damage Assessment Teams,
Road Crews and Municipal Staff, Utility Crews, News Media and any other agency
or individual that may be utilized for support operations. This course
will enable students to understand basic incident management design thus
enabling them to properly integrate with primary emergency services.
Students will also learn safety principles necessary for their own well being
while operating at an emergency scene. Safety principles include the
ability to recognize hazardous materials and hazardous conditions as well as
understanding terminology and signs used by primary emergency responders to
indicate danger. Information concerning terrorist activities and the
potential use of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons will be presented, as
well as, concepts concerning the use of secondary devices or secondary attacks
against emergency personnel.
Please contact AFSS for a
training quote for your agency.
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Hazardous Materials Highway Transportation
Exercise
Hazardous Materials
Highway Transportation Exercise is an exercise comprised of a
realistic scenario that can happen anytime on any highway in any size
jurisdiction. Traffic collisions occur by the millions on a daily basis. This
exercise creates a traffic collision between a passenger vehicle and a
commercial tractor-trailer combination. The dynamics of the impact cause the
individuals in the passenger vehicle to become injured and trapped. Hazardous
Materials escape from the container and complicate the rescue. The emergency
responders must extricate and treat the patients but they must properly handle
the hazardous release before they become victim’s themselves.
This
exercise can be conducted in 2 formats
Format number 1 is
conducted as a live exercise. Our staff will create the incident and
provide role players and props necessary to act out
all of the victim roles from truck driver to injured passengers.
AFSS will provide the host
agency with an After Action Report in accordance with HSEEP guidelines.
Format number 2 is
conducted as a training program where our staff instructs you every step of the
way from dispatch to clean up. You will gain valuable student/instructor
interaction therefore earning a remarkable “hands on” education. Our program
takes you from the boring classroom and puts you into a realistic mock emergency
scene. All students will receive a training certificate.
Please
contact AFSS
for a training quote and program
outline for your agency.
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School Terror Exercise
School Terror Exercise
prepares for the unthinkable.
Unfortunately in today’s society, school violence from within and the
possibilities of terrorist attacks aimed at our school systems are part of
reality. We have designed a comprehensive school terror exercise that will
prepare your emergency responders for a day we hope never happens. Our program
is a full-scale exercise that will involve all emergency services including law
enforcement, emergency medical services, fire departments, emergency management,
hospitals and other support services.
Your emergency responders
will be confronted with active gunmen, mock explosive devices, hazardous
materials, fire, mass casualty, diversionary devices and a whole lot more.
As with all of our
exercises, we will provide the actors and all of the necessary props for the
scenario. We will work with you to coordinate all of the preparation activities
and help coordinate between participating agencies. Our evaluation team will
provide you with a professionally written After Action Report in conjunction
with HSEEP guidelines.
Please
contact AFSS for a training quote and program
outline for your agency.
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Terrorism Operations - Biological Attack Practicum
Biological Attack
Practicum is an exercise designed to test and develop the skills necessary
to successfully manage and coordinate a biological terror scene. Participants
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ill be dealt a host of different challenges ranging from mass contamination to
criminal investigation. This exercise is designed to test and tax the emergency
medical system in your community. We create a realistic attack scenario based
on your goals and objectives. Your emergency responders must recognize the
threat and make the proper decisions to control the hazard. All levels of
emergency services will be tested. We will provide all of the necessary props
to create the scene as well as the key actors necessary to develop the
scenario. Our management team will assist you with all preparation activities
in order to make this event a success. AFSS will provide an After Action
Report in accordance with HSEEP guidelines.
As with all of our
exercises, the format of this program is entirely customizable. We can adapt
our outline to meet any objectives you may have.
Please
contact AFSS for a training quote and program
outline for your agency.
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Terrorism Operations - Chemical Agent
Exposure
Chemical Agent Exposure
is an exercise designed to test and develop the skills necessary to successfully
manage and coordinate a chemical terror scene. Participants will be dealt a
host of different challenges ranging from scene safety to agent identification
and decontamination. This exercise is designed to test all aspects of emergency
response in your community. We create a realistic attack scenario based on your
goals and objectives. Your emergency responders must recognize the threat and
make the proper decisions to control the hazard. We will provide all of the
necessary props to create the scene as well as the key actors necessary to
develop the scenario. Our management team will assist you with all preparation
activities in order to make this event a success. AFSS evaluators
will provide an After Action Report in accordance with HSEEP guidelines.
This exercise can be
conducted in 2 formats. The goal of each format is to challenge the
participants in order to create a measurable learning environment. 
The Residential Terror
Attack version of this exercise will focus on an event that could happen in any
size jurisdiction. The scenario can be developed to consist of an unexpected
clandestine laboratory discovery, a rouge individual creating a chemical weapon
in the privacy of his/her own home, a large scale development operation in a
secluded farm house or a crime in progress involving the utilization of a
possible chemical weapon as an instrument of deterrence by the actor.
The Commercial Terror
Attack version of this program creates a scenario where a chemical weapon has
been deployed in a public environment such as a shopping mall, sporting event or
public gathering. This version will create a mass casualty incident placing a
high demand on your emergency medical system.
Both formats are
entirely customizable. We can adapt our outline to meet any objectives you may
have.
Please
contact AFSS for a training quote and program
outline for your agency.
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Hazardous Materials and Terrorism Awareness for Dispatchers and
911 Operators.
Dispatchers and 911
operators are usually the first to receive notification of any type of
emergency, which occurs in the community. They may be talking with the person
who is a victim of an incident, witnessed what happened, or may even be the
perpetrator. Callers can provide valuable information to assist emergency
responders. This training is designed to provide dispatchers and 911 operators
with the tools to extract information from callers. It will further train call
takers to provide assistance to emergency responders when dealing with hazardous
materials, terrorist, or threat incidents. Threat incidents may include bomb
threats, anthrax threats or any other type threat involving explosive, chemical
or biological materials. The information provided in this course is applicable
to fire, police, and EMS dispatchers.
Hazardous materials,
terrorist, and threat incidents are very technical by nature. This training
course will help increase the awareness level of dispatchers and 911 operators
when these incidents occur. Dispatchers will develop a better understanding of
the type of information that is important to response personnel. They will also
understand terminology used by response personnel and be able to provide a
higher level of assistance based upon their increased level of knowledge.
Subject areas covered in the course will
include an introduction to hazardous materials incidents and acts of terrorism.
Other units will include hazardous materials and terrorist awareness; hints to
the presence of hazardous materials or terrorist incidents; locations where such
incidents may occur; recognizing signs and symptoms from victims; and the types
of information to gather from the caller to be helpful for response
personnel.
Course Developed by:
Robert Burke
Please
contact AFSS for a training quote and program
outline for your agency.
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