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.