San Bruno CA: Are YOU "CERT"able?

The City of San Bruno and San Bruno Fire Department

Presents - Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

FREE!

Here is your opportunity to become a trained member of “CERT”, the City of San Bruno Community Preparedness Program. Participants in this 20-hour series of classes will learn how to be part of neighborhood response teams, cross-trained in basic emergency skills. Each class emphasizes skills that will be practiced during a hands-on session at City Hall Room #115, 567 El Camino Real, San Bruno.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Disaster Awareness and Preparedness

• Disaster types, history and probability.
• How to prepare before it happens.
• What to do when a disaster strikes.

Wednesday September 9, 2015

Basic Disaster Skills

• Natural gas, water and electrical controls: why when and how to shut them off.
• Types of fire and use of extinguishers to put the fire out.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Medical

• Health considerations for the rescuer.
• Opening the airway.
• Stop bleeding and controlling shock.
• Triage.
• Burns, fractures, and other injuries.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Light Search and Rescue

• Different types of construction and where to look for damage.
• How to classify damaged buildings.
• Building marking system.
• Interior search patterns.
• Lifting heavy objects and mechanical advantage.
• Victim carries.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Disaster Psychology & Terrorism

• Team Well-Being
• Working with Survivors’ Trauma
• Terrorist Targets
• Preparing at Home and Work

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Team Communications, Organization and Management

• Composing emergency messages
• Hands on practice with MURS Radio
• CERT Incident Command System; managing the disaster. Documentation

**Saturday, October 10, 2015**

Skills Development and Application

· Extinguish fires.

· Triaging and treating victims.

· Extricating victims trapped by heavy timbers.

· Interior search for reported missing persons.

· Course Review.

· Graduation Ceremony

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All classes will be held at City Hall #115, 567 El Camino Real, San Bruno, CA 94066 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, except for **Skills Development & Application**, which will be held at San Bruno Fire Station 51, 555 El Camino Real on Saturday, October 10, 2015 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM.

Please wear comfortable shoes and clothing to the last class.

For registration contact the CERT Hotline (650) 616-7015 for San Bruno Fire or visit our website at https://sanbrunocacert.samariteam.com

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Robert Riechel

Senior Correspondent – San Bruno Patch

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Source Credit: City of San Bruno CA

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