 Rural/ Metro Fire teaches special Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training to community residents giving them the skills to assist police, fire and EMS personnel during an emergency or disaster situation.
CERT is about readiness, people helping people, rescuer safety, and doing the greatest good for the greatest number. CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens will be initially on their own and their actions can make a difference. Through training, citizens can manage utilities and put out small fires; treat the three killers by opening airways, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock; provide basic medical aid; search for and rescue victims safely; and organize themselves and spontaneous volunteers to be effective.
CERT training will be provided in the following areas:
- Disaster Preparedness: Disaster workers, threats, impact on the infrastructure, structural and non-structural hazards, and hazard mitigation.
- Disaster Fire Suppression: Fire Chemistry, hazardous materials, reducing hazards, CERT size up, firefighting resources safety, and fire suppression.
- Disaster medical-Part I: recognizing and treating life threatening conditions and triage.
- Disaster Medical-Part II: Organization of disaster medical operations; head-to-toe assessments; establishing treatment areas; treating burns; wound care; treating fractures, sprains, and strains splinting; hypothermia; frostbite and public health consideration.
- Light Search and Rescue Operations: planning; search and rescue size-up, conduction search operations; and conducting rescue operations.
- Disaster Psychology and Team Organization: disaster psychology; CERT organization; CERT decision-making; documentation; and tabletop exercise.
- Terrorism: Apply the CERT principles and define and identify terrorism based on the term B-NICE
- Course Review and Disaster Simulation: final exam; course review; disaster simulation; and exercise critique and summary.
Each Section of training is usually delivered in 2 ½ hours.
To request information or learn about upcoming CERT classes in your area taught by Rural/ Metro Fire Department please click here to send an email.
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