Areas of concentration covered in the comprehensive 8 week CERT course:

• Awareness of medical, environmental, and fire related emergencies
• Basic fire suppression techniques and hazardous material awareness
• Basic search and rescue operations
• Disaster Psychology
• Documentation of important data
• Establishing the neighborhood command post
• Medical treatment of the sick and injured
• Planning and forming a neighborhood response team
• Post storm operations: Assisting police and fire departments
• Signs of potential building collapse

CERT is available on the city's Volunteer Program Projects.