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Title: Community Emergency Response Team Training Neighbor Helping Neighbor


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Community Emergency Response TeamTrainingNeigh
bor Helping Neighbor
  • Hurricane Preparedness Seminar
  • Saturday, July 19, 2008
  • Westshore Senior Center

2
First Responders in the City of Tampa
  • First Responder Per Capita in the City of Tampa
  • 1 Firefighter for every 513.5 people
  • 590 Firefighters/EMTs/Paramedics 303,000
    citizens
  • 1 Police Officer for every 311.4 people
  • 973 Police Officers 303,000 citizens

3
Personal Preparedness
  • How can you learn to help yourself when a major
    disaster overwhelms emergency services?
  • CERT TRAINING

4
What is CERT?
  • The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
    Program educates people about disaster
    preparedness for hazards that may impact their
    area.
  • In the event of a major disaster, CERT members
    can assist others in their neighborhood or
    workplace when professional responders are
    overwhelmed.

5
Citizen Corps
  • Citizen Corps is the Department of Homeland
    Security's nationwide grass-roots effort that
    actively involves Americans in making communities
    safer, stronger and better prepared for all
    emergencies.
  • Areas of emphasis for volunteer efforts
  • Crime
  • Natural Disasters
  • Terrorism

6
Citizen Corps
  • CERT
  • Neighborhood Watch
  • Medical Reserve Corps
  • Fire Corps
  • Volunteers in Police Service

7
Citizen Corps
  • Citizen Corps mission is to engage people in
    every community via
  • Personal responsibility
  • Training
  • Volunteer service

8
How does CERT benefit the community?
  • If a disaster happens that overwhelms local
    response capability, CERTs can give critical
    support to their family, neighbors or associates
    until help arrives.
  • When help does arrive, CERTs provide useful
    information to responders and support their
    efforts, as directed, at the disaster site.

9
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • CERT members are trained in basic disaster
    response skills such as

10
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • CERTs learn to be prepared by
  • Identifying potential hazards in their homes and
    workplaces.
  • Reducing hazards, where possible.
  • Developing a disaster supply kit.

11
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • Fire Safety

12
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • Light Search and Rescue

13
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • Disaster Medical Operations

14
How will CERT training prepare me for
Hurricane Season?
  • Disaster Psychology
  • Team Organization
  • Terrorism and CERT

15
What are the two most important things I can do?
  • MAKE A KIT!!
  • MAKE A PLAN!!

16
Responding To a Disaster
  • Q How can CERT members respond to a
    disaster?
  • A Locate and turn off utilities, if safe.
  • Extinguish small fires.
  • Treat injuries.
  • Conduct light search and rescue.
  • Help to relieve survivor stress.

17
Non-disaster CERT roles
  • Q What can CERT members do?
  • A Distribute preparedness materials.
  • Support city mass casualty exercises.
  • Assist with first aid at local events.

18
CERT Training Continued Education
  • Q Who provides CERT training?
  • A Certified trainers from Tampa Fire Rescue

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CERT Training Continued Education
  • Q What happens after I take the training?
  • A Greater Tampa CERT holds monthly
    continuing education meetings, participates in
    local emergency response drills and provides
    additional training and refresher courses
    throughout the year

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Continuing Education Training
  • Hurricane Preparedness
  • Traffic Control
  • CPR and Automated External Defibrillator use
  • Bioreadiness
  • Hazmat
  • GPS training
  • Ropes and Rappelling
  • Terrorism
  • Incident Command
  • Quarterly exercises
  • Sky Warn Storm Spotting
  • Amateur Radio
  • First Responder

21
Are you prepared?
  • You can take action now to help protect your
    families, help reduce the impact an emergency has
    on our lives, and help deal with the chaos if an
    incident does occur.

22
CERT Training Continued Education
  • Q What is the commitment to CERT training?
  • A The course involves 24 hours of FREE
    training by Fire Rescue Personnel
  • Each trained graduate receives a certificate,
    ID card and kit with essential disaster response
    supplies

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How do I get CERT training?
  • Call the Tampa Fire Training Academy at 242-5410
    or email info_at_greatertampacert.com.
  • Check out our website at
  • www.tampagov.net/cert
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