2:50 p.m. OHS-OCD Hosts Critical Infrastructure Training Opportunities

The Office of Guam Homeland Security and the Office of Civil Defense (OHS-OCD), in conjunction with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), will host the following training opportunities at the OHS-OCD facility in Agana Heights:

Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Awareness (AWR-213)
- The one-day training is offered at no cost to eligible participants and will introduce participants to the key terms, policy, guidance, and preparedness efforts required to safeguard the Nation’s critical infrastructure.
- The target audience for the course include personnel involved with critical infrastructure and emergency management partners from the government of Guam, military, federal, private, and non-profit organizations.
- To register, visit https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=AWR213&S=755
Thursday, May 21 – Friday, May 22, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Threat & Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment/Stakeholder Review (MGT-310)
- The two-day training is offered at no cost to eligible participants and introduces the six-step THIRA/SPR process which includes identifying threats and hazards that stress a community’s capabilities, giving context to those threats and hazards and identifying associated impacts consistent with specific factors, identifying community-specific capability targets, assessing current levels of capability in comparison to those targets, identifying capability gaps and subsequent strategies to close those gaps.
- The target audience for the course include emergency management partners from the government of Guam, military, federal, private, and non-profit organizations.
- To register, visit https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT310&S=1638
Tuesday, May 26 – Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Conducting Risk Assessments for Critical Community Assets (MGT-315)
- The two-day training is offered at no cost to eligible participants and is designed to help prevent, reduce, or mitigate the potential consequences of a domestic terrorist attack, natural catastrophe, or other emergency using all-hazards scenarios to identify critical community asset risks and their potential impacts to a community.
- The target audience for the course include personnel involved with critical infrastructure and emergency management partners from the government of Guam, military, federal, private, and non-profit organizations.
- To register, visit https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT315&S=1441
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Community Lifelines (MGT-414)
- The one-day training is offered at no cost to eligible participants and is designed to enhance skills to formulate considerations for the resiliency of jurisdictional assets leveraging cross-sector partnerships.
- The target audience for the course include personnel involved with critical infrastructure and emergency management partners from the government of Guam, military, federal, private, and non-profit organizations.
- To register, visit https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT414&S=632
Friday, May 29, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Physical and Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure (MGT-452)
- The one-day training is offered at no cost to eligible participants and encourages collaboration efforts among individuals and organizations responsible for both physical and cybersecurity toward development of integrated risk management strategies that lead to enhanced capabilities necessary for protecting critical infrastructure.
- The target audience for the course include personnel involved with critical infrastructure and emergency management partners from the government of Guam, military, federal, private, and non-profit organizations.
- To register, visit https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=NE&C=MGT452&S=405

For more information, contact Training & Exercise Program Manager, Patrick Leon Guerrero at (671) 475-9600 or via email at pat.leonguerrero@ghs.guam.gov. For media inquiries, contact Public Information Officer, Jenna Blas at (671) 475-9600 or via email at jenna.g.blas@ghs.guam.gov.

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Wildfire

Regularly clean the roof and gutters.
Maintain an area approximately 30’ away from you home that is free of anything that will burn, such as wood piles, dried leaves, newspapers and other brush.
Connect garden hoses long enough to reach any area of the home and fill garbage cans, tubs, or other large containers with water.
Review your homeowner's insurance policy and also prepare/update a list of your home's contents.

Fire Weather

Turn on your TV/radio. You’ll get the latest weather updates and emergency instructions.
Know where to go. If you are ordered to evacuate, know the route to take and have plan of where you will go. Check-in with your friends and family.
Keep your car fueled, in good condition, and stocked with emergency supplies and a change of clothes.

Drought

Conserve water

Take shorter showers.

Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving.
Run the washer less frequently and only when you have a full load.
Water your lawn less frequently and do so when the temperature is cooler in the early morning or late evening.
When you run the tap to heat or cool water, keep a pitcher to store the water and use it to water plants.
Avoid washing your car.

Practice fire prevention

Don't set off fireworks when conditions are dry.
Deposit cigarette butts in the proper receptacle to avoid starting a
Pour water over camp fires and backyard fire pits to ensure they are completely out before leaving them unattended.

Follow directions from local officials. If there are restrictions on water usage, be sure to heed them.

To learn more, visit https://www.ready.gov/wildfires and https://www.ready.gov/drought

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“Hurricanes” form in the Atlantic Northeast Pacific region and “Typhoons” form in the Northwest Pacific Region. These large storms are call cyclones in other parts of the world.

To learn more, visit https://www.ready.gov/hurricanes.