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| Children in Crisis: New course addresses pediatric emergency planning | ||
| A new course developed by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is designed to help first responders, emergency managers, EMS and hospital emergency room personnel plan and prepare to manage a disaster that impacts children. | ||
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| Training for Disaster: Realistic incident management scenarios prepare responders | ||
| At TEEX’s Emergency Operations Training Center in College Station, unique, scenario-based simulations are used to train responders from across the nation to manage a realistic, large-scale crises using a unified command approach. | ||
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| Texas Workforce Commission unveils online resource for economic development | ||
| Texas communities now have a new resource to help attract business and development opportunities to the Lone Star State. “SitesOnTexas 2.0 is a geographic mapping resource that allows workforce and economic development professionals to effectively collaborate with employers and plan for business expansion, job retention and workforce training,” said TWC Chairman Andres Alcantar. | ||
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| Public Works experts help assess water lines, sewer system in West blast zone | ||
| A Public Works Assessment Team, part of the Public Works Response Team (PWRT), deployed to West, TX, on April 24. In their operational period Thursday, the team assisted the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the West city engineer with testing and documentation of the integrity of the city sewer system in the blast impact zone. City drinking water service lines will be tested today. | ||
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| Public Works Response Team deploys to West, TX | ||
| At the request of the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), the State Operations Center (SOC) has asked TEEX to mobilize a Public Works Assessment Team to deploy to West, TX. | ||
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| Create a man-made F5 tornado for product testing? No problem! | ||
| When SR Systems needed to test its products in an F5 tornado, the TEEX Product Development Center (PDC) and its collaborators across The Texas A&M University System tackled the challenge. As part of an agency known for simulating huge fires, explosions and destroyed cities for training purposes, the PDC team and its partners soon developed just what the company needed - a man-made tornado. | ||
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| Gamez receives Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation scholarship | ||
| Joseph Gamez of Shiner, Texas,a graduate of the 140th Firefighter Recruit Academy class, is the first recipient of the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation scholarship. | ||
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| TX-TF1 Red Team demobilized after completing search & rescue efforts in West | ||
| Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) was demobilized Saturday by the Texas Division of Emergency Management after a two-day deployment to West, Texas, for search and rescue operations following the explosion of the West Fertilizer Plant on Wednesday, April 17. | ||
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| TX-TF1 wraps up second day of search & rescue in West, TX | ||
| Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) is wrapping up their second operational period in support of the search & rescue efforts in West, TX. The team continued delayering the apartment complex structure and performed secondary searches of the neighborhood north of Meadows Drive. The team also performed a wide area search of the West Fertilizer Plant. | ||
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| Texas Task Force 1 deployed to West, TX, following fertilizer plant explosion | ||
| Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) was activated just before 1 a.m. this morning by the Governor through the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) and deployed from their facility in College Station to West, Texas, around 6 a.m. to assist the jurisdiction in search and rescue operations after a large explosion at a fertilizer plant. | ||
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