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Citizens Emergency Response Team Training
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program helps train people to be better prepared to respond to emergency situations in their communities. When emergencies happen, CERT members provide critical support to first responders, provide immediate assistance to victims, and organize spontaneous volunteers at a disaster site. CERT members also help with non-emergency projects that improve the safety of the community.
The CERT course will be taught by a trained team of first responders who have completed a CERT Train-the-Trainer course conducted by the state training office for emergency management, or FEMA's Emergency Management Institute. CERT training includes disaster preparedness, disaster fire suppression, basic disaster medical operations, and light search and rescue operations.
Each member of RSVP's Emergency Response Team, and interested citizens, are encouraged to take the CERT training over the next year. Most often CERT trainings are offered in 20-hour consecutive blocks, but the fall CERT trainings in Yellowstone County will be in five 4-hour segments:
- Each Tuesday morning from 8:00 a.m. to noon at the Yellowstone County Council on Aging from September 28th through October 26th, and
- Each Tuesday evening from 6:00 -10:00 p.m. at the MSU-B College of Technology from September 28th through October 26th.
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