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