COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) Water Rescue Squads deployed this week in response to heavy rain and severe weather over Central and West Texas. The Water Rescue Squads helped to evacuate five people and a dog from …
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TEEX delivers training at first FEMA Cybersecurity Symposium
MITSBURG, MD – The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is providing cybersecurity training this week for the renowned Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management …
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission calls on TEEX to assist in developing leadership program for supervisors
AUSTIN – Eighteen supervisors from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) recently attended the pilot of a new Principles of Leadership course in Austin. The two-day course …
30 TEEX Courses Recommended for College Credit by American Council on Education
COLLEGE STATION — The American Council on Education (ACE) has recommended college credit for 30 TEEX courses, including 19 forensic science courses, which received the ACE credit recommendation for the first time. Students can earn up to 44 college credit …
Lawrence Livermore employees travel to Texas for Explosives Handler training at TEEX
BRYAN, TEXAS – An innovative training program for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has brought nearly 50 employees from California to an explosives range at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas, over the past two years. The latest group graduated from the Explosives Handler Training Program on March 29.
The Program …
53 new firefighters graduate from 158th TEEX Firefighter Academy
COLLEGE STATION — Fifty-three new firefighters graduated March 29 from the 158th Firefighter Recruit Academy at the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). The graduates, who came from Texas, California, Arizona, Canada, Japan and Mexico, completed 12 weeks of …
Spring ISD students taking online cybersecurity courses can earn college credit
SPRING, TEXAS — Some high school students in the Spring Independent School District are now learning more about cybersecurity by taking online courses offered by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) as part of their curriculum. The students at Carl …
Training prepares SWAT teams for explosive building entry
BRYAN, TEXAS – SWAT team members and military personnel from across Texas and other states learned this week to safely use explosives to gain entry to a building — training that could be put to the test to rescue hostages or …
Texas A&M Task Force 1 plans large-scale training exercise at Disaster City
COLLEGE STATION — Coming off its busiest year ever, Texas A&M Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) will hold a full-scale Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE) on Feb. 23-24 at Disaster City? in College Station to prepare and train for what could be …
TEEX assists Atlanta with Super Bowl security preparations by training 1,200 responders
COLLEGE STATION – More than 1,200 emergency responders and officials in the Atlanta metropolitan area are better prepared to keep people safe during the upcoming Super Bowl LIII thanks, in part, to training they received from the Texas A&M Engineering Extension …