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Contact Carol Permar 801-829-3099
29% of Americans have not prepared for a disaster because they think
emergency responders will help them.
60% expect to rely on emergency responders in the first 72 hours.
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I want to give you a little back ground about our county; we have about
200 thousand people in Weber County, 15 cities.
Three of the cities have one fire department to service their needs
(population of the three cities is 31,935), 8 fire fighters on a shift at a
time.
3 of our cities have volunteer fire departments, these volunteers have
other jobs outside of the city so if a call comes in whoever is home will
respond or they will call on one of the other fire departments that are
staffed every day.
6 of those cities have a fire district that provide services to them; most
of these departments have about 9 people on a shift at a time some of
these departments are covering more than one city.
Our biggest city has a population of 83,793 they have 6 fire
departments at those 6 departments there may be anywhere from 2 to
8 people on a shift so about 37 fire fighters on each shift to service
83,793 people.
This is where CERT comes in.
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In 1984, Mexico City was devastated by a large earthquake.
Los Angeles City Fire personnel traveled to Mexico City to observe the
emergency response there.
What they witnessed shocked them. Over 80% of all live rescues from
collapsed buildings were performed by average citizens who were
untrained in rescue operations. 100 deaths were attributed to wouldbe-rescuers killed while attempting those rescues.
It was then fire fighters realized that citizens are a front line defense in
disasters and therefore need critical training to protect themselves and
those who they are rescuing, and to help keep them from becoming
victims themselves.
That’s how the CERT program came about.
In 1994 FEMA adopted what LA had put together and called it the
Community Emergency Response Team Training
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7 nights 21 hours of training. We charge 30 dollars this gets you your
helmet, goggles, vest and gloves, mask, we get our manuals printed
free from one of our local hospitals you can also get free manuals from
FEMA, we have also partnered with our community colleges to use
their facility for free and they also have fire extinguishers they can’t use
any more but are ok for training so they fill those for us for free.
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CERT Training is designed to teach the following Modules:
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Personal Disaster Preparedness
In this module we talk about the hazards that could affect our county
we also talk about some of the hazardous materials that we have in the
county and where they are located as well as what we can do in our
own homes to be better prepared. We have hundreds of fault lines in
Utah they are broken up into 10 segments.
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Fire Safety - Fire Extinguishers
We learn how to use a fire extinguisher as well as hazards that we could
have in our homes mixing cleaning chemicals to many plugs in one
extension cord how to turn off your gas if needed, where to shut of
your water, how to secure your water heater.
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Disaster Medical Operations Part 1
Triage means to sort: we teach about the three killers Air way, Bleeding
and Shock, how to categorize them from not too serious to very
serious.
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Disaster Medical Part 2
Treatment: how to do a head to toe assessment as well as controlling
bleeding
Packaging and Transport: how to put a person on a stretcher without
injuring them more, as well as lifts and drags (with blankets and chairs)
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Light Urban Search and Rescue
looking for signs of if a building is safe to enter and a not so safe
buildings. Light, moderate or heavy damage as well as using cribbing to
get someone out from under something heavy.
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Team Organization
Incident Command how to work under the National Incident
Management System (NIMS)
https://training.fema.gov/is/nims.aspx
700,100,200 are all good classes you can take on line to teach you
about the incident command system
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Disaster Psychology
Dealing with all kinds of situations you may not deal with on a daily
bases. Psychological first aid.
Terrorism Awareness
Teaches you to be aware of what’s around you, you would never
respond to a terrorist attack, but be aware of what’s happening out
there and signs of a terrorist.
Hazmat Awareness: what’s going down your freeways, railroads and
the different placards that are used?
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Final Hands-on Exercise
We do a mock disaster and with our area it is always an earthquake we
bring in kids and adults to be victims I and a few others do the moulage
to make them wounds look real and we let the class organize
themselves with a team leader, then we help that person organize
search groups as well as medical groups and treatment area. Then after
words we talk about what went well and what didn’t.
On all of our modules I try and get people who are specialists in their
fields, I use my fire fighters/emt for medical hazmat; I have our
Emergency manager teach team organization, I have a psychologist
teach disaster psychologist.
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To find a CERT group in your area go to
www.fema.gov/community-emergency-response-teams
Under the picture in the middle of the page to the left side there is a
box that says find nearby CERT programs, click on this then on the next
page it will ask you to put in a zip code and that should help you to find
a contact in your area, most CERT programs are under your emergency
manager or fire departments some are under the police departments
as well.
This same sight you will be able to find training materials and training
videos for CERT. CERT books are free; there is a number you can call to
get books, not sure if you have to be a registered CERT program. 1-800480-2520
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At the Emergency Management Institute they do offer a CERT train the
trainer class as well as program manager training class. The person to
contact is Paul Benyeda 1-301-447-1326 the training is free you pay for
your plane ticket and FEMA will reimburse you after the class is over it
takes about 4 weeks all you have to pay for is a meal ticket for a week, I
believe it is about a 125.00 covers 3 meals a day.
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The New FEMA CERT person is Donta Randazzo office: 1-202-786-9687
Email dante.randazzo@fema.dhs.gov
I’m giving you these contacts just in case you have a hard time finding a
CERT program in your area.
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My contact information
Tammy Folkman
Weber County Sheriff’s Office
801-778-6686
tfolkman@co.weber.ut.us