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Release Date: May 19, 2005
FEMA ANNOUNCES NEW WEB-BASED INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM (ICS) COURSES
Emmitsburg, MD - Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response, announced today
that the nation's first-responders can now take two new Incident Command
System courses online through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Virtual Campus.
"Over 225,000 of our nation's response personnel have completed Incident
Command System and National Incident Management System courses currently
available online through the FEMA Virtual Campus," said Brown. "President
Bush directed that a comprehensive National approach to incident management,
applicable to all jurisdictional levels across functional disciplines, be
developed. I am pleased to announce these new courses which will train our
first responders in that National Incident Management System."
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