Wife is taking some emergency response courses.
DHS / FEMA / CERT training. 21 hours this weekend.
Community Emergency Response Team.
She will know more than I do after the 1st ten hours.
She will be 'certified' and with her own hard hat
by tomorrow night. Stage one.
We don't know how far she will end up going.
She was given a tour of the Central Indiana
Emergency Control room yesterday.
In a police sub district station.
This emergency control facility has a gated
parking lot wrapped in large stacked concrete
blocks topped with wrought iron spiked fencing.
CERT video
1st 21 hours:
Attend the CERT training course to become a Team Member. You will learn how to prepare yourself, your family and your community for a disaster. Become familiar with tools to help you organize after a disaster and how to conduct triage and provide basic first aid. Learn to assess damage after the disaster, extinguish a small fire, conduct searches and rescue victims safely, and complete a small-scale disaster simulation!
Other courses:
2017 Advanced Courses:
(Must have completed 21 hour CERT Training to participate)
< Inclusion of People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs, Thurs, March 2, 2017 6:30 PM
< Shelter Management Sat, March 4, 2016 8:00 AM
< St. Vincent Helicopter Safety Training, Sat, Mar 11, 2017
< Radio Communication Class Sat, April 8, 2017 9:00 AM
< Traffic and Crowd Control Sat, April 8, 2017 1:00 PM
< Refresher Course and Tabletop Sat, May 13, 2017 9:00 AM
< Search & Rescue Class, Sat, Jun 10, 2017
< Disaster First Aid, Sat, Jun 24, 2017
< Animal Care and Control Sat, Aug 19, 2017 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
< Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster Tue, Sept 26, 2017 6:30 PM
< Diversity Awareness, Thur, Sept 28, 2017 6:30 PM
< Cyber Security Class Thu, Oct 5, 2017 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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