October 28, 2005

The Front Line in Training for Disasters

By BEN GOSE

Community colleges prepare 85% of 'first responders' but say they are shortchanged in competition for federal dollars

Owens Community College trains hundreds of firefighters and police officers on its Toledo, Ohio, campus each year. If terrorists ever take aim at the city, odds are good that Owens graduates will be among the first on the scene. So when officials of the college realized that no facility existed near Toledo to simulate such disaster scenarios, they made plans to

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