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2013 Multi-CERT Event

The 2013 Multi-CERT Exercise and Training

September 28th, 2013 from 9am to 1pm

Taylorsville Senior Center

4743 S. Plymouth View Drive,

Taylorsville, Utah

Three Skills Modules: 

Search & Triage 

Rescue & Transport 

Disaster Medical 

Each module includes: 

Team Mentoring 

Just-In-Time Training 

Team Assignment Briefing 

Simulated Disaster Scenario 

Team De-briefing & Review

PARTICIPATING TEAMS 

& ORGANIZATIONS: 

Taylorsville City (host),

Bluffdale, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Herriman, Lehi, Murray, 

Pleasant Grove, Salt Lake City, SLCC, Salt Lake County, Sandy, Saratoga Springs, 

South Salt Lake, West Valley, Brothers Grimm, SLCo Medical Reserve Corps, 

LDS Church, Southern Baptist Church,

Utah Division of Emergency Management

For more information and to register, click on the following link:

2013 Multi-CERT Exercise

Traumatic Stress Management for Parents

The magnitude of death and destruction in an event require special attention to communicating with children and adolescents. Physical safety and security takes priority.

It is difficult to predict the kinds of psychological problems that children and adolescents will have, however, the following management plan may help minimize later difficulties:

• Your response to the disaster will affect your child’s response, therefore, it is helpful to discuss your own reactions with another adult before talking with your children.

• Discuss the event in an open honest manner with your children. Children might want to talk intermittently, and younger children might need concrete information to be repeated.

• Be available for your child.

• Limit the times of exposure to television or other sources on information about the disaster and its victims.

• Engage your child in conversation of their choosing-not necessarily about their feelings or the scene. Talking about the normal events of life is central to health.

• Maintain daily routines to the extent possible. For children school is an important part of feeling safe and normal.
  
• Increase your child’s sense of control and mastery within the household-let him or her plan dinner or the evening’s activities.

• Every child has a different way of responding to trauma. It is not advisable to require the same response of everyone. Listen to your child’s stories.

• Now is not the time to introduce new routines. Familiar schedules and bedtime stories can be reassuring.

• Reassure your children that the disaster was not their fault in any way.

• Older children and adolescents may feel “stirred up”. Helping them understand their behavior and setting limits can help.

• Some children may respond with a return to old behaviors, such as a loss of toilet training, or inability to fall asleep alone. These should be tolerated and understood.

• Help your child modulate the extent to which they personalize or identify with the victims or the situation. Remind your children that they are safe and with you.

• Provide concrete information to your child about how she/he differs from the people in the accident to decrease over-identifying with the victims.

Disaster Response Education and Training Project, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress.

For more information see http://www.cstsonline.org/our-work/disaster-mental-health/

Portable Fire Extinguishers - Fighting Small Fires

How to fight small fires...remember the word PASS!

Click on the following link for the full pamphlet:

Portable Fire Extinguishers - Fighting Small Fires

Cribbing

Cribbing is essential in many extrication operations.  Its most common use is to stabilize objects.  Wood selected for cribbing should be solid, straight and free of major flaws such as large knots or splits.  Cribbing surfaces should be free of any paint or finish because this can make the wood slippery, especially when it is wet.  Cribbing can be made out of pieces of timber found in the debris and cut to size.  Pieces of 2X2 (5 cm X 5 cm) and 4X4 (10 cm X 10 cm) as well as wedges cut in this size timber are very useful.

Cribbing involves multiple pieces of wood laid on the side and crossed.  It spreads the load well and has many load transfer surfaces.  It also has lateral stability depending on the ratio of width to height.  The height should not be more that three times the width.  (Note:  pieces should not be more that two feed (60 cm) long.)

The overhand at corners should be no less than 4 inches.

4X4 crib capacity = 24,000 lb. (10,886 kg).


6X6 crib capacity = 60,000 lb. (27,215.5 kg).

Note:  using 3 pieces per layer as in 3X3 (7.5 cm X 7.5 cm) cross tie will double the capacity

CERT Bag Items added to "Documents" tab

I have wondered for a long time what items are recommended for a CERT bag and now I have found one on the net that I really like.  I have posted what I found under 2 links in the "Documents" tab of the blog, and have also included them below.

CERT Bag Items 1

CERT Bag Items 2

Updated CERT Training Dates

New courses for Salt Lake City CERT training start May 7, 8 and 9 are posted under the CERT Training tab above.

To register for a class, visit www.slccert.org.