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Would Would You Like to Step Up and Help Your Community in a Disaster? Become a CERT Member!
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) provides safety skills to ordinary residents, empowering them to be more resilient in a disaster.
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a national program, now part of Citizens Corps and FEMA. CERTs are volunteers who have undertaken an 18 hour training that enables them to participate in the public safety response in a community following a disaster.
We know that our public safety professionals will be quickly overwhelmed in a major disaster. CERT training provides life-saving skills, enabling you to how to help yourself, your family and neighbors to be more resilient in the aftermath of an emergency. Have you ever wondered if you would be able to put out a fire with a fire extinguisher? Or know how to splint a broken arm? Have you wondered how that regular guy actually lifted a refrigerator off an injured person? Join us in our next CERT Basic Training and learn about suppressing fires, first aid, light search & rescue, cribbing and working as a team in an emergency.
Our next class is at College of Marin on March 25 & 26. Register online at www.readymarin.org through paypal or print our registration form and send in with a check. Classes are still only $45.00. Scholarships are available. For more information and the schedule for the rest of the year, contact coordinator@marincountycert.org or call 415-279-6529.
Be a good neighbor and become a Disaster Service Worker and CERT volunteer.
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Open to all residents over 15 years of age.
