OFD Hosts WMD Seminar for First Responders

  The Owego Fire Department will host a Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Seminar for area First Responders on Wednesday, January 5, at 7:00 pm at the Owego Middle School on Elm Street. 
 The program will begin with a brief presentation by Patrick Gavin, Presidential Management Fellow, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP). Gavin will discuss ODP programs including the State Homeland Security Grant Program as well as the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

 The evening's primary presenter will be Tom Creamer, a consultant to the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office and various state and local public safety agencies.
Creamer currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Operations for Counter Terrorism programs at the Public Safety Training Center located at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY. He is currently involved in an international initiative involving terrorism response training and WMD counter proliferation in former member states of the Soviet Union.

 WMD Incident Response is an operations level discussion designed to provide First responders (Police, Fire, EMS, hospital based and private sector) with the skills necessary to conduct appropriate evaluations for initiating actions in a WMD environment.  

 The seminar is free and everyone is welcome to attend.