New Training Center For Emergency Teams In The U.S.
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The United States is dealing with many threats in all areas of life and has to be prepared to cope with a wide range of emergency situations. In order to train emergency service personnel to cope with threats increasing daily, private bodies are planning to form a training center for emergency situations, in addition to an already exisiting one, in order to prepare private and public emergency teams from all across the country.
This second center, which is to be established in the city of Grand Forks in North Dakota, is getting the support of the local city council as well as the senator representing North Dakota, Heidi Heitkamp, who is calling for legislation on the issue of rail safety, after the train derailment in December 2013 in North Dakota.
It’s usually the government’s responsibility to train national emergency teams, so it’s not at all obvious that local and private bodies who are funding this project. On the other hand, this might be a privatization of some sort, meaning that the government will supervise procedures and training but the training itself will be the direct responsibility of private or commercial companies.
This brings up the question of whether the state or federal authorities should be the ones to take direct responsibility over this matter or not. On the one hand, it’s only reasonable that training national emergency teams should be exclusively under the central government, but then again – isn’t this simply utopic? Can national bodies theoretically take under their sole charge everything under their juisdiction while still maintaining proper levels of qualification? Or might delegating such tasks be the best way to make the best of these emergency teams’ training? In this writer’s humble opinion, putting on the scale practive vs. vision – practice will win, at least when it comes to saving human lives.
