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Title: Clovis CERT


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Clovis CERT
How the Cadre Was Built
2
Citizen Volunteers
  • Quality vs. Quantity
  • Meaningful Stuff to Do
  • Capitalizing on Volunteer Interest or innate
    skills sets
  • Its not just about disasters
  • It is about partnerships

3
CERT
  • Community Benefits
  • Year round support through volunteer programs
  • Reduces burden on first responder services by
    promoting mitigation and preparedness measures
  • Creates well trained, better informed, and better
    prepared citizens to take care of themselves and
    others during times of crisis -- allowing first
    responders to address the most critical needs

4
Fire Extinguisher Training
  • Farmers Market
  • Collaboration with Chamber of Commerce. . FREE!
  • Eight Friday evenings from June September
  • Public Information re CERT and fire extinguisher
    training for kids

5
Heat Wave Support
  • Staffed for 5 nights from 5 10pm in
    collaboration with Senior Services Division
  • Results
  • Provided relief for 15 people displaced by the
    extreme heat
  • Made over 160 phone calls to special needs
    citizens to ensure they had adequate cooling and
    were staying hydrated

6
Downtown Electrical Parade 12/03/11
  • 12 Members in collaboration with PD
  • Assignments Traffic control, parade route crowd
    control, barricade placement, transport to PD
    Command Center

7
Sand Bagging
  • Staffed for two nights in collaboration with
    Public Utilities
  • 1/3/08 19 members
  • 1/4/08 12 members
  • 1600 bags created over two nights
  • Assignments filling, loading, distribution to
    residents, traffic control

8
Mass Care/Shelter Trailer
  • Support for 200
  • Blankets, Cots, Care Kits
  • Supplied consistent with ARC requirements and MOU
    drafted for deployment out of area by ARC

9
Emergency Assistance Unit
  • CERT personnel trained in collaboration with ARC
  • On-Scene Victim Support
  • Clothing
  • Child essentials
  • Hydration
  • SCBA bottles

10
Emergency Assistance Unit
11
2010
2008-2009
  • Total Volunteer Hours 8,689
  • Teen CERT program graduated 42 students at CART
  • Responded to 4 house fires with EAU support
  • Graduated 30 basic CERT members
  • 12 personnel certified in CPR/AED
  • Provided 200 scholarship to one Teen CERT
    graduate
  • Performed 5 training exercises
  • Rehabilitated arson destroyed playground
  • StormReady Certification 1st in the Valley
    (1/14/08) in collaboration with NWS
  • 10 CERT members trained as part of certification
  • Station 1 Opening (1/26/08)
  • Public Education Booth
  • Joint MCI Exercise w/ Sacramento CERT (4/19
    4/20)
  • 22 Presidential Service Awards for members with
    1,000 hours of service
  • Victims
  • 12 for an MCI drill October 2007
  • 10 for evacuation drill 3/26/08
  • CERT graduates come back to design and proctor
    full-scale exercises at the end of every
    subsequent CERT class

12
How/Why does it Work?
  • Strong Leadership Team comprised of volunteers
    that hold each other accountable
  • Disaster Services Supervisor gets out of the way
  • Sense of Community is already strong in Clovis
  • COLLABORATION WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS
  • Be creative
  • Think about joining forces and blurring boundaries
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