Outreach Training

Over the next several months, DHS is going to conduct outreach training across the country because, in the words of DHS Secretary Chertoff, “the NRF does not come to be born in one fell swoop. It’s a birthing process that requires real integration across our emergency response, from sea to shining sea, and in Alaska and Hawaii as well.”

FEMA Administrator Paulison said training courses would start on Feb. 5. By April 11, all 24 individual courses should be on the FEMA website. By June 1, Paulison said he wants “all the federal family trained, all the federal responders, and as many first responders and emergency managers out there, ready to go to understand how we’re going to operate in this country before hurricane season.”