Overview: Responders continue to see a growing spectrum of active threat incidents using unconventional weapons & tactics, including active shooter/active assailant incidents, mass shootings, knife/edged weapon attacks, vehicular ramming, improvised explosives, drones, and other emerging threats across the United States.
This fast-paced training is available to all first responders. It gives public safety responders and planners an overview of what is necessary to effectively and realistically manage a multi-agency response to a chaotic, fast-moving, and high-profile incident. The training will briefly address a wide range of current and emerging threats and include group/team activities.
Also, critical communications “up, in, and out” of your organization during a crisis are important. Updating and briefing senior and appointed officials with timely and accurate information in any community can be challenging during an active threat response. The event will receive considerable local, media, social media, regional, state, and federal attention
Topics:
• Overview of Threats, Threat Actors, and Threat Groups
• Unified Public Safety Response Operations
• Critical Communications “Up, In and Out” during a Crisis
• Reflecting on the flow of timely information, internal and external to the public and media
• Active Shooter/Active Assailant/Mass Shootings
• Knife/Edged Weapons Attacks
• Vehicle Ramming Attacks
• Advanced Suicide Vests/Devices
• Drones as a Weapon
• Swatting & Hoaxes
• Recurrent Lessons Learned
• Available Resources
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| Date(s) |
Tue. Oct 14, 2025 0900-1500
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| Location |
Kernersville FD, Station 42
1180 Highway 66 South, Kernersville NC 27284
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| Handicap Accessibility |
No
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| WiFi Access |
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| Offered By |
North Carolina Division of Emergency Management |
| Primary Instructor |
Vernon, August M. |
| Course Length |
1 |
| Course Hours |
5.00 |
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| Award Credentials |
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| Prerequisites |
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| Equivalent Prerequisites |
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| Maximum Participants |
75 |
| # Open Seats |
49 |
| # on Wait List |
3 |
| Attachments |
Course Flyer
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