The FBI Hazardous Devices School is a training center that trains all of the United States public safety bomb technicians at the federal, state and local level. [1] It is part of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group. [2]
The school is located on a 455-acre campus at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The campus contains classrooms, explosive ranges, and mock villages that include a train station, apartment complexes, a movie theater, and a strip mall. [1] [3]
The school opened in 1971, [1] and was jointly run by the FBI and the United States Army for 45 years until 2016, when the FBI took primary responsibility. [4]
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.