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Join me, Terry Bradshaw, as I explore all that's new and exciting about the U.S.A. and Canada
and what people are doing in order to make a difference. It's an easy way to see what's happening across your own country.
Welcome to Today in America.
Industry has made this country what it is today and will continue to take us forward into the future.
Here's a look at how industry works.
Here at the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service crews are training hard to prepare for the next big emergency.
TEEX has been at the forefront of emergency response training. From large-scale terrorist incidents to natural disasters
to public health emergencies.
The agency provides training in a variety of fields including fire services, law enforcement,
urban search and rescue, economic development, and public works.
TEEX is known globally as an eminent training provider in the area of emergency response,
training, and technical assistance. We operate Texas Task Force One as a FEMA organization.
We also are well known in product development, technology transfer, economic development and information technology.
For more than eighty years TEEX has been training first responders.
Helping build a safe, modern infrastructure, protecting people and the environment and promoting economic development
TEEX has developed the expertise by bringing together subject matter experts from all over the country
that have responded to some of the largest incidents that have occurred
and couples that with a world-class facility that is able to recreate scenarios from those incidents
that combination really makes us the experts in the field.
TEEX is home to one of the most comprehensive emergency operations training campuses.
Known for its hands-on training, the agency’s courses are extremely realistic
and feature the largest response training and disaster simulation facility in the world.
Instructors are top experts in their field, many of whom have been first responders in the most devastating disasters.
TEEX is so effective because of our facilities and our expertise. Our instructors' skills, abilities and knowledge exceed anybody in the world.
Because of this, students come from around the world each year to train at TEEX.
TEEX’s two-hundred-eighty-acre Brayton Fire Training Field is the largest in the world, providing live-fire props based on real-world scenarios.
Facilities include full-scale buildings, towers, tanks, industrial plant structures, and a ship used for life-like training simulations.
Located adjacent to Brayton is Disaster City, a mock community used for urban search and rescue training.
The facility features full-scale, collapsible buildings designed to simulate various levels of disaster and destruction.
The disaster complex also houses the Emergency Operations Training Center,
which provides scenario-based incident management training.
The EOTC does state-of-the-art simulation and computer based training for incident management.
We train first responders, incident managers, supervisors, executives, public officials and military personnel
to manage large-scale, all-hazards crises using a unified command approach.
The Texas A&M Riverside Campus offers law enforcement professionals as well as other emergency responders access to
emergency vehicle driving track and skid pad, a live-fire shoot house and firing range,
and residential prop houses for tactical training as well as crime scene investigations along with a physical skills training complex.
Riverside also features training facilities such as electric power training fields, a heavy equipment training field,
a water laboratory and utilities training hangar.
The hangar serves as the headquarters for the OSHA Southwest Education Center,
a champion of worker safety in five states.
TEEX also promotes economic and job growth across Texas
and helps businesses through the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center.
TEEX is driven by a very strong and compelling sense of public mission and customer service.
The culture of TEEX comes from a public works mission, an emergency response mission,
a law enforcement mission and a mission of helping people in manufacturing and technical assistance
and information technology.
This all combines to make our customers and the public very special to us and we have a very strong sense of wanting to serve them.