MEDIA ADVISORY: Live Firefighting Opportunity Industrial Fire School – Wednesday, July 21, 8:00am-12:00noon Municipal Fire School – Wednesday, July 28, 8:00am-3:00pm Contact: [email protected] COLLEGE STATION, TX – The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Annual Municipal Fire school has been happening for 92 years. Ninety-two years of training firefighters across the state on the largest…
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Moments after a high-rise condominium building in Surfside, Fla., was nearly leveled in a devastating collapse late last month, emergency workers began sifting through concrete and twisted metal for any sign of survivors. Their urgent mission was not a haphazard scouring of the debris, but a carefully orchestrated plan learned after…
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – TEEX Testing and Innovations Center (TT&IC) Senior Project Specialist Ryan Mills graduated Thursday, May 27, 2021, from the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center with honors and made the Commandants List. Since mid-April, Ryan has been deployed on Army Reserve duty for the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Leadership Training Course.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service’s (TEEX) Emergency Service Training Institute (ESTI) released a new episode on their Emergency Management Podcast about Firefighting Considerations for Electric Vehicle Fires. In this episode, host Jason Loyd chats with TEEX Rescue Program Training Specialist Jason Harris and Recruit Academy Agency Instructor Justin Fryer on the…
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – On June 6 in South Bend, IN, founding member and former Chief of Texas A&M Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) Billy Parker received The Higgins and Langley Lifetime Achievement Award for his years of service and dedication to the development and leadership of the organization. Billy’s contributions have made TX-TF1 a gold…
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – Texas Engineering and Extension Service (TEEX) Emergency Services Training Institute (ESTI) recently received a donation of a new pressurized rail car to add to the Hazmat Train Derailment prop. This addition opens the door for more specialized training for participants and will bring in new customers who have gone to other…
COLLEGE STATION, TX – The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 3, 2021, at the RELLIS Campus for the new indoor Monopole Cell Tower Prop donated by Warriors 4 Wireless, T-Mobile, US Tower, Teltech, and Wireless Horizon. The tower prop constructed inside a hangar will help train participants in…
Four women graduated Dec. 10, 2020, from the Collegiate Technical Investigation Skills Program, offered by the Texas Forensic Science Academy and Blinn College.
COLLEGE STATION – Twenty-nine new peace officers graduated from the Central Texas Police Academy Basic Peace Officer Course on Dec. 4, after 18 weeks of comprehensive online and hands-on training conducted by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). Keynote speaker was Police Chief Billy Couch of the College Station Police Department. The 167th Basic…
The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) announced that it will incorporate several aspects of the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security portfolio into its national cybersecurity training initiatives. TEEX focuses on providing cybersecurity training and technical assistance to public and private organizations across all 50 states as well as U.S. territories. They help train front-line employees,…
