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SUBJECT: Certificate for Participants that Completed the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) Basic Course
REPORT IN BRIEF
Accepted by participants of the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) Basic Course.
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DISCUSSION
What is the C.E.R.T. Program?
The City of Merced's Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) training is designed to teach a person to help themselves, family, and neighbors in a disaster situation, such as the flooding in January 2023.
The C.E.R.T. training program covers basic skills that are important to know when emergency services are not immediately available. You can make a difference by using the training to save lives and protect property.
Emergency responders, emergency management personnel, and emergency trained volunteers provide this valuable training. Program materials cover general life-threatening situations, floods, pandemics, power outages, heat waves, fires, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents, and other situations.
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) certified course does not require previously emergency knowledge for participation and is offered at no cost to the participants. Cost Benefit Ratio is $3,732.47 to deliver this valuable training to each C.E.R.T. team: INVALUABLE IN THE NUMBER OF LIVES SAVED.
Through challenges than span geography, age, diversity, language and the availability of cell phone coverage and broadband, the Merced Fire Department C.E.R.T. and its sister program Listos provides services to ALL populations. The Merced Fire Department C.E.R.T. and Listos is committed to building on its foundational commitment to serve equitably, inclusively, and to a diverse population through broad community outreach. To do so, we are expanding training for community emergency response volunteers and for residents and neighbors to better able to be their own first help until first responders can arrive.
Participants attend a total of eight training sessions, which ...
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