2009 NTNS Research Brief: Fire Services
In 2009, RDPC conducted its second National Training Needs Survey. The survey targeted a random sample of individuals from eight disciplines representative of the rural emergency response community: Emergency Management Agency Personnel (EMAP); Emergency Medical Services (EMS); Fire Services (FS); Governmental Administrative (GA); Healthcare/Public Health (HCPH); Law Enforcement (LE); Public Safety Communications (PSC); and Public Works/Public Utilities (PWPU).
This research brief presents a discussion of the finding of unmet training needs among rural FS personnel across all homeland security mission areas, including: information gathering and intelligence sharing processes; responding to health related emergencies; and protecting critical infrastructure and resources. A discussion of how this finding and how this finding relates to the overall goals of homeland security training in rural communities will also be presented to the reader.
