CERT Introduction 2018-04-05 Housekeeping ● Sign-in at every class CERT Introduction ● Restrooms ● Smoking policy - no ● Cell phone policy – off or silent mode ● Emergency exits CERT Basic Training ● Earthquake – duck, cover, hold on INTRODUCTION ● Parking lot for questions Spring 2018 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-1 Sign-In REQUIRED at all classes & drill WELCOME! REMEMBER to sign-in at every class. ● Introductions ● Classroom Etiquette CERT watchword – If it’s not written down it didn’t happen. ● Expectations ● History REMEMBER at graduation drill • Sign-in when you arrive and • Sign-out when you leave • So CERT leadership doesn’t have to look for you before closing down the drill site! CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-2 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-3 Etiquette Expectations ● Prepare to get Prepared! ● Please arrive by 6:15 PM ● Class starts promptly at 6:30PM ● No Tests but you must Participate in the and finishes at 9:30 PM class exercises! ● Sign class roster each class ● Attend all Classes and Drill to Graduate! ● Be respectful of your instructors and ● Don’t do anything you can’t do! students ● Safety is #1 Priority ● Come prepared and dressed for hands-on training CERT Goal is: Do the Greatest Good for ● Questions will be answered right away or the Greatest Number of People! put into a ‘parking lot’ for later discussion CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-4 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-5 1
CERT Introduction 2018-04-05 Course Preview What was the impetus for CERT? ● At least 9,000 (maybe as many as 100,000) ● Personal Preparedness killed in 1985 Mexico City earthquake ● Disaster psychology � 700 saved by untrained volunteers ● Disaster medical operations � 100 volunteers died trying to help ● Fire & utility safety ● City of Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) ● Communications recognized that citizens are likely to be on their ● Light search and rescue own during early stages of disaster ● CERT organization ● FEMA adopted/expanded into National Program ● Animal Operations ● All 50 States, 3 Territories and numerous foreign ● CERT and terrorism countries have adopted CERT. CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-6 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-06 0-7 Walnut Creek CERT History Walnut Creek CERT Mission ● CERT program implemented in Walnut Helping people Creek in 2006 ● CERT areas of responsibility established in help themselves 2007 and Area Coordinators appointed ● CERT Area “Cache” program proposed and and their community adopted in 2008 ● CERT volunteer training assumed by Walnut Creek volunteers in 1/2009 prepare and prevail ● Over 2000 CERT volunteers trained to date ● Eight staging areas and ICS teams firmly in an emergency established to date in 2017. CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-8 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-9 Walnut Creek CERT Areas WALNUT CREEK CERT AREA COORDINATORS Buena Vista Jeff Starr jeffhstarr@gmail.com Civic Park Nisha Patel nishawaa@gmail.com Heather Farm Jeannie Marie Stewart msjeanniemarie@gmail.com Lar Rieu Kim Weinstein kgweinstein@gmail.com Northgate Dale Blodgett dale.blodgett@yahoo.com Rossmoor Marcia McLean marciacan@comcast.net Sugarloaf Don Prosnitz don@prosnitz.org Tice Valley Joe Bologna jobologna@comcast.net Each CERT Area organizes around a local Command Post… CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-10 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-11 2018-04-05 0-11 2
CERT Introduction 2018-04-05 CERT Staging Area Storage Caches CERT as Emergency Response Resource ● CERT is a Community Based and Community Each CERT Staging Area maintains Supported Volunteer Organization disaster response supplies in a storage container called a ‘cache’ ● CERTs are conditioned to be: � Self Trained � Self Contained � Self Sustained ● CERT is integral to emergency response for the City of Walnut Creek CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-12 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-03-05 0-13 CERT Disaster Response CERT Disaster Response CERT will be the eyes and ears of the City during the first critical 90 minutes – ● Respond in time period immediately after a disaster Windshield Survey: CERT teams survey their neighborhoods along predetermined ● Assist emergency response personnel when routes and report by radio. requested REGION POPULATION HOUSEHOLDS AREA (sq. miles) Buena Vista 11,463 4,950 2.73 ● CERT members’ first responsibility is personal and Civic Park 11,476 6,436 2.65 family safety Heather Farm 16,290 8,719 2.86 ● Respond after a disaster: Lar Rieu 4,231 1,738 1.30 Northgate 14,661 5,451 9.58 � Locate and turn off � Conduct light search and Rossmoor 7,993 6,605 2.89 rescue utilities, if needed Sugarloaf 7,934 3,575 2.55 � Help to relieve survivor � Extinguish small fires Tice Valley 8,135 3,566 2.57 stress � Treat injuries Population: 82,000 Households 41,000 27.1 square miles CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-14 CERT Basic Training 2017-03-05 01-15 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Rescue Skills Needed Why we should be prepared? ● The USGS* has estimated a 63 % 5% USAR Teams Entombed probability of a Void Space Non- 15% Emergency magnitude 6.7 or Structural Services Provider Entrapment larger earthquake in Non-Structural 30% CERT Teams the Greater Bay Area Entrapment in the next 30 years. 50% Injured NOT Spontaneous Rescue Trapped Teams * USGS = US Geological Survey CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-16 CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-17 INTRODUCTION 3
CERT Introduction 2018-04-05 Earthquakes Earthquakes Shaking Potential ● A sudden slipping or movement of a portion of the Earth’s crust caused by a sudden release of stresses, usually less than 25 miles below the surface CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-18 CERT Basic Training 2017-03-05 0-19 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Concord – Green Valley Fault 1989 Loma Prieta – 6.9 M/15 Seconds CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-20 CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-21 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 2014 Napa – 6.0 M SEARCH & RESCUE / MEDICAL OPERATIONS CERT VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION!! CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-22 CERT Basic Training 2017-01-04 0-23 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 4
CERT Introduction 2018-04-05 Five Coordination Levels of Walnut Creek CERT Annual Training Emergency Preparedness and Response 1. � Basic Training Classes – Spring sessions 2. � Spring Graduation Drill (late May or early June) 3. � “Ham Cram” FCC Amateur Radio License Class (June) State 4. � “Get-On-The-Air” Radio Training Class #1 (June) 5. � “Get-On-The-Air” Radio Training Class #2 (July) Region 6. � CERT City-wide Mobilization & Communications Drill (mid-Sept.) County 7. � Basic Training Classes – Fall sessions City 8. � Fall Graduation Drill (late October) Community 9. � “Ham Cram” FCC Amateur Radio License Class (November) 10. � Disaster Medical Hands On Class – Continuing Ed. (November) 11. � “Get-On-The-Air” Radio Training Class #1 (November) 12. � “Get-On-The-Air” Radio Training Class #2 (December) CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2018-04-05 0-24 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-25 Government City � Maintain and update Emergency Operations ● Government has Plan and facility evacuation plans. responsibility to: � Offer Emergency Operations Center (EOC) � Develop, test, and refine and evacuation training and exercises to City emergency plans employees. � Ensure emergency � Ensure that the EOC has the necessary tools responders have adequate for activation and operation. City Council, Police skills and resources Chief, City Manager � Prepare and administer grants related to emergency preparedness. � Provide services to protect and assist citizens CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-26 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-27 Community Preparedness: Community Leaders Roles and Responsibilities ● Have a responsibility to participate in ● Lessening the community preparedness. impact of disasters ● Community takes steps to prepare ● Attributes of the whole community City Emergency Operations Center CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2017-01-04 0-28 CERT Basic Training INTRODUCTION 2018-04-05 0-29 5
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