Warren CERT
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Mission
Statement:
The Warren Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
program helps train people to be better prepared to respond to emergency
situations in their communities. When emergencies happen, CERT
members
can give critical support to first responders, provide immediate assistance to
victims, and organize spontaneous volunteers at a disaster site. CERT members
can also help with non-emergency
projects
that help improve the safety of the community.
The Warren (CERT) program trains volunteer's to:
* Respond to local disasters in accordance with CERT
protocols and support emergency personnel upon their arrival and request,
* Inform, educate, and train their neighbors about
disaster preparedness,
* Assist agencies in managing spontaneous volunteers at
a disaster site,
* Assist public safety agencies and local community interests
with public events.
The CERT concept includes all the likely actions a team
or an individual may utilize in the aftermath of a disaster such as, search and
rescue techniques, debris removal, first aid, small fire containment, etc.
To educate citizens to be better prepared to take care
of themselves, family, friends, and neighbors in the event of a disaster of any
type until trained emergency responders can arrive. To establish
Community Emergency Response Teams, emergency management
resources, volunteer pools to help during an emergency, and to perform projects
that improve a community’s preparedness
Our Mission is to do the most good for the greatest
number of people by extending the capabilities of response organizations to
minimize loss of life and damage to property. Our Goal is to prepare
ourselves,
our families, our neighbors, workplaces and our communities-at-large because
disasters may overwhelm emergency response resources. Before a disaster, Warren
CERT will focus on emergency preparedness and hazard mitigation. In response to
a disaster, Warren CERT may operate directly, or assist responders, in
activities to save or sustain lives and protect property. Warren CERT will also
strive to become known as a trusted volunteer resource that can actively
support the response community in many ways, such as helping with community
Safety Projects and preparing our neighborhoods and workplaces.
Warren CERT will be a well-organized, well trained and
well managed volunteer group providing highly affective critical support
activities. The safety of everyone is our number one priority.
About CERT:
The Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA), using the model created by the Los Angeles City Fire Department,
began promoting nationwide use of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
concept in 1994. Since then, CERT's have
been established in hundreds of communities.
CERT training promotes a
partnering effort between emergency services and the people that they
serve. The goal is for emergency
personnel to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations, or
workplaces in basic response skills.
CERT members are then integrated into the emergency response capability
for their areas.
If a disastrous event overwhelms
or delays the community's professional response, CERT members can assist others
by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned
during training. These skills can help
save and sustain lives following a disaster until help arrives. CERT skills also apply to daily emergencies.
CERT members maintain and refine
their skills by participating in exercises and activities. They can attend supplemental training
opportunities offered by the sponsoring agency and others that further their
skills base. Finally, CERT members can
volunteer for projects that improve community emergency preparedness.
CERT Training will teach participants to:
* Identify the types of hazards
most likely to affect their homes and communities
* Take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster
* Identify and reduce potential
hazards in their homes and workplaces.
* Work as a team to apply basic fire suppression strategies,
resources, and safety measures to extinguish a burning liquid.
* Apply techniques for opening
airways, controlling bleeding, and treating shock.
* Conduct triage under simulated
conditions
* Perform head-to-toe
assessments.
* Select and set up a treatment
area.
* Employ basic treatments for
various wounds.
* Identify planning and size-up
requirement for potential search and rescue situations.
* Describe the most common
techniques for searching a structure.
* Use safe techniques for debris
removal and victim extrication.
* Amateur Radio Emergency
Services.
* To Provide Operational and Logistical Support to all Federal,
Territorial, and Municipal Emergency services, Rescue Services, and Community
aid services.
* Learn and understand disaster
preparedness principles.
* Fire Safety.
* Disaster Medical Operations -
Triage and Treating Life Threatening Injuries.
* Light Search and Rescue.
* Team Organization.
* Disaster Psychology
* Terrorism, Biological Weapons,
and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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we will be showcasing some of the information on preparing for a disaster for
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