Are you interested in learning how to protect yourself, your family and your community in the event of a major disaster? If so, then become a CERT Member.

What is CERT?

 CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team

What does CERT do?

Using the basic CERT curriculum, CERT personnel train to prepare for a disaster or overwhelming event by:

• Identifying and mitigating potential hazards in the home and workplace.
• Initiating plans to prepare themselves and their loved ones for the hazards that they face.
• Learning skills to help themselves, loved ones, and neighbors or fellow employees until professional response resources arrive.
• Working cooperatively as a team within their neighborhoods or workplaces.
• Maintaining a relationship with the agency that sponsors the CERT program.
• Participating in continuing education and training.
• Volunteering for projects to enhance the public safety of their communities.
• Understanding their capabilities and limitations when deployed.

During training, CERTs learn to:

• Prepare for the hazards that threaten their communities.
• Apply size-up and safety principles.
• Locate and turn off utilities.
• Extinguish small fires.
• Identify hazardous materials situations.
• Triage and treat victims.
• Set up a medical treatment area.
• Conduct searches and rescues in lightly and moderately damaged structures.
• Understand the psychological impact of a disaster on themselves and others.
• Organize CERT members and spontaneous volunteers for an effective and safe response.
• Apply response skills in a disaster simulation.

The Alpine Fire Protection District will be doing in person training and DATES will be announced soon.

If interested, please ENTER YOUR INFORMATION below or call 619-445-2635 to reserve your space in the academY.

Check out pictures from the graduation of the first CERT academy in 2011.