Emergency Responder Stephen J. Zajac, from Parma, recently completed training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Alabama. The CDP is operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the only federally-chartered Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) training facility in the nation.
Zajac has over thirty years of first responder experience that includes emergency medical service, fire service and law enforcement/security service. He currently works for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Public Safety Department and is a member of the department’s Special Emergency Response Team. Zajac was engaged in an intensive week-long training comprised of lecture, practical and simulated disaster training. “The instructors at the CDP were top notch, in that they had decades of field experience along with excellent teaching skills,” said Zajac. The training received will help Zajac serve the local community should a situation arise whereby a rapid deployment of medication and/or vaccines would need to be distributed to the entire community within 48 hours.
The CDP develops and delivers advanced training for emergency response providers, emergency managers, and other government officials from state, local, and tribal governments. The CDP offers more than 40 training courses focusing on incident management, mass casualty response, and emergency response to a catastrophic natural disaster or terrorist act. Training at the CDP campus is federally funded at no cost to state, local, and tribal emergency response professionals or their agency.
Responders participating in CDP training gain critical skills and confidence to respond effectively to local incidents or potential WMD events.
Information about CDP training programs can be found at https://cdp.dhs.gov.
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