FBI Hazardous Devices School


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. It is part of the FBI's FBI Critical [Incident Response Group|Critical Incident Response Group].
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.
The school opened in 1971, and was jointly run by the FBI and the United States Army for 45 years until 2016, when the FBI took primary responsibility.