From the SE Division CERT Supervisor

Dear Friends,

Are you prepared to save yourselves, your families and your communities when disaster strikes? When fire, flood or shake/rattle/roll starts, you'll be glad you've trained in CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), a national FEMA course!

The schedule for Fall 2012 Salt Lake City training is posted at www.slccert.org; click on "Register for CERT Training." The opportunities include two locations close to residents of the Salt Lake City Southeast Division.

• On Tuesdays September 11 through October 23, a course will be presented at the LDS Richards Ward building at 860 Downington Avenue.

• On Thursdays September 13 through October 25, a course will be presented at the LDS Monument Park 1st and 2nd Wards building at 1005 S 2000 E. 

Thirty dollars and seven weeks of classes from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. gets you instruction, a manual, a great CERT starter kit and new friends in preparedness.

If you want to attend but have a conflict for one or two of the nights of your selected course, you may coordinate with the instructors to make the unit(s) up. For instance, if you're signed up for the Thursday course but have to miss one, you could attend the Tuesday course on the appropriate day for that unit.

Please sign up soon; registration is required a week ahead of the start of the first class for each course. Get the word out to family, friends and neighbors as a minimum of twenty students is required to carry each course. These courses offer people previously trained in CERT to refresh and update their skills and, with $30 and attendance at all seven nights, an extra CERT kit for automobile or work!

Best regards,

Susan Smith, Volunteer
Salt Lake City CERT
Southeast Division Supervisor

CERT Class in the Foothill Area

The next CERT training class to be taught in

our area begins Thursday, September 13th.

Here are the details:

CERT Instruction

Dates:       September 13th through October 25th 

Time:         Thursdays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:   1005 South 2000 East - LDS church building

Cost:         $30

Go to www.slccert.org

          click on 'Register for CERT training'
                    scroll down and complete the form

                                 in the first box, select the class date '9/13'

If you need further information, you can email slcfoothillnet@gmail.com and I will respond back or redirect your request to the appropriate persons.

KSL - Shakeout CERT Training Report

KSL covered the Great Utah Shakeout and posted a video segment on CERT.

Notice towards the end of the coverage, they included what I interpret as Block Captains working in a "Neighborhood Disaster Drill"...walking the neighborhood, reporting into a communications center.

I like how they merged the two together.  Block Captains will play a big role in the successful use of CERT teams in a neighborhood.  With Block Captains walking their neighborhood and reporting situations in to the Command Center,  CERT teams can then be dispatched out to assist specific situations.

Follow the link below to watch just the CERT video...

              KSL - Great Utah Shakeout CERT TRAINING REPORT

Follow the link below to watch all the coverage

               KSL - Great Utah Shakeout FULL COVERAGE

Monthly CERT Refresher Course Training

Monthly CERT Refresher Course Training


Where:  Cannon 5th / 6th / 9th Ward building
               1250 West 1400 South - Salt Lake City - http://tinyurl.com/yeab6hl
               The easiest entry is through the EAST doors of the building
               the first room to the right.
When:    The second Saturday of each month
               9:00am (Usually lasts one hour)
Who:      Anyone with interest in learning more about what 
               to do during an emergency
What:     We cover a unit from the CERT manual each month
Cost:      No cost!


For more information, please contact:


Mike Teeples
mteeples@gmail.com
Terry Ingersoll
tanaone@comcast.net

Bonneville Hills C.C. CERT Meeting

Dear B.H.C.C. Residents Businesses & Friends,

B.H.C.C. CERT certified or people in the process of taking CERT classes are invited to a B.H.C.C.  community meeting to lay the groundwork for organizing CERT emergency preparedness in our community.

Eudo Atencio atencio65@gmail.com is our BHCC Leader for CERT in our community. The meeting will be at his home.

Date:         Wednesday, February 8th
Time:         7:00 pm.
Location:   Eudo Antencio home
                1481 South 2300 East


For more information, please email Eudo.

Thanks!

Neighbors Mobilize Deseret News Article

Immediately after the great 7.0 earthquake...stops rumbling, help is quickly on the way for everyone in Scott Johnson's West Valley City neighborhood.  It is not from the fire department or police. They will be too busy with collapsed schools, nursing homes, shopping centers and other big problems to allow coming to Johnson's residential neighborhood for days.

The help is coming instead from neighbors whom Johnson organized in advance. They have written plans to follow and are well trained. Meanwhile, residents in less-organized neighborhoods are merely "winging it" — and many die needlessly amid chaos, including untrained, would-be rescuers who enter buildings that collapse on them.

Johnson helped his neighborhood form a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).

Follow the link below to read more:

http://desne.ws/oqC1jl

By Lee Davidson , Deseret News, Published: Tuesday, April 25 2006 

CERT

Community Emergency Response Team, CERT, is a training program that prepares you to help yourself, family, and neighbors in the even of a disaster.  As a member of a CERTteam, you can respond to disasters, participate in drills and exercises, and take additional training.

Under the direction of the local emergency responders, CERT teams help provide critical support by giving immediate assistance to victims, providing damage assessment information, and organizing other volunteers at a disaster site. They also offer a potential workforce for performing duties such as shelter support, crowd control, and evacuation until trained emergency personnel arrive.

The CERT program builds strong working relationships between emergency responders and the people they serve as well as helping the community year-round by assisting with community emergency plans, neighborhood exercise, preparedness outreach, fire safety education, and workplace safety.

CERT training takes about 20 hours to complete. Participants learn how to: identify and anticipate hazards, reduce hazards in the home and work place, extinguish small fires, conduct light search and rescue, set up a medical technique and help reduce survivor stress.

Who should take CERT training?  People interested in taking an active role in hometown preparedness. For more information on classes scheduled in Salt Lake City, visit the following links:

http://www.unifiedfire.org/divisions/community/cert.aspx?0

www.slcgov.com/em