Training and Exercise Resources

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides a variety of training and exercise resources available and applicable to the following:

• Emergency Managers
• Federal, State, and Local Governmental Representatives
• Non-governmental Organizations
• The Private Sector

Websites

• FEMA NIMS Training Program
• FEMA Emergency Planning Exercise
• The American Red Cross offers safety training at various locations throughout the greater Los Angeles area such as first aid and CPR for adults, children and infants.
• Study.com offers an online Guide to Scholarships for First Responders & their Family Members which lists a number of national as well as regional resources.
• Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) is community-based emergency and disaster training offered by the Los Angeles Fire Department. It is an all-risk, all-hazard training. This valuable course is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors and your neighborhood in an emergency situation.

[Please note: The Emergency Management Department (EMD) periodically reviews helpful sites external to the City and provides links here.  This is done as a service to Angelenos, however, inclusion of such links - including commercial sites - in no way constitutes an endorsement of those sites or their host organization.  This does not imply that EMD or LA City endorses the products/services offered.]