Course Information

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is designed to cover the following:

  • Unit 1 Disaster Preparedness Introduction to Disasters
  • Unit 2 Disaster Fire Suppression
    • Fire chemistry and suppression
  • Unit 3 Disaster Medical Operations, Part 1
    • Treating life-threatening conditions and principles of triage
  • Unit 4 Disaster Medical Operations, Part 2
    • Head-to-toe assessments, treatment for various injuries
  • Unit 5 Light Search and Rescue Operations
    • Size-up for search and rescue, search operations, rescue operations
  • Unit 6 CERT Organization
    • CERT equipment, organizing and deploying your team, communications
  • Unit 7 Disaster Psychology
    • Team well-being, working with survivors
  • Unit 8 Terrorism and CERT
    • CERTs and terrorist incidents
  • Unit 9 Final Exercise
    • Review and disaster simulation