CERT
Community Emergency Response Team
If available, emergency services personnel are the best trained and equipped to handle emergencies, and you should use them. However, following a catastrophic disaster, you and the community may be on your own for a period of time because of the size of the area affected, lost communications, and impassable roads.
CERT training is designed to prepare you as a volunteer to help yourself, your family, and your neighbors in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Because emergency services personnel will not be able to help everyone immediately, you can make a difference by using CERT training to save lives and protect property.
CERT training covers basic skills that are important to know in a disaster when emergency services are not available. With training and practice and by working as a team, volunteers will be able to do "the greatest good for the greatest number" after a disaster, while protecting themselves from becoming a victim.
Tracy Fire CERT
In 2007, the Tracy Fire Department established the CERT program for the greater Tracy community. The first class of volunteers graduated training in 2007 and as of early 2008 a second class of volunteers have joined our team. The fire department intends to provide CERT training at least twice during each calendar year.
Volunteers learn to:
* Identify and anticipate hazards within their community
* Learn how to prepare themselves for a disaster
* Reduce fire hazards in the home and work place
* Extinguish small fires
* Assist emergency responders when necessary
* Conduct light search and rescue
* Develop safe techniques for debris removal and victim removal
* Set-up treatment areas and command center
* Apply basic medical techniques
How Can I Become a CERT Volunteer?
If you would like to volunteer your services and become trained to protect yourself, family and neighbors during times of disaster become a CERT member. To become a member of Tracy Fire CERT you must be a high school student or older, and live in the Tracy Fire response area which includes the City of Tracy, Rural Tracy and Mountain House.
For more information, please contact the Tracy Fire Department at (209) 831-6700 or email us at firedept@ci.tracy.ca.us
If available, emergency services personnel are the best trained and equipped to handle emergencies, and you should use them. However, following a catastrophic disaster, you and the community may be on your own for a period of time because of the size of the area affected, lost communications, and impassable roads.CERT training is designed to prepare you as a volunteer to help yourself, your family, and your neighbors in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Because emergency services personnel will not be able to help everyone immediately, you can make a difference by using CERT training to save lives and protect property.CERT training covers basic skills that are important to know in a disaster when emergency services are not available. With training and practice and by working as a team, volunteers will be able to do "the greatest good for the greatest number" after a disaster, while protecting themselves from becoming a victim.
Tracy Fire CERT
In 2007, the Tracy Fire Department established the CERT program for the greater Tracy community. The first class of volunteers graduated training in 2007 and as of early 2008 a second class of volunteers have joined our team. The fire department intends to provide CERT training at least twice during each calendar year.
Volunteers learn to:
* Identify and anticipate hazards within their community
* Learn how to prepare themselves for a disaster
* Reduce fire hazards in the home and work place
* Extinguish small fires
* Assist emergency responders when necessary
* Conduct light search and rescue
* Develop safe techniques for debris removal and victim removal
* Set-up treatment areas and command center
* Apply basic medical techniques
How Can I Become a CERT Volunteer?
If you would like to volunteer your services and become trained to protect yourself, family and neighbors during times of disaster become a CERT member. To become a member of Tracy Fire CERT you must be a high school student or older, and live in the Tracy Fire response area which includes the City of Tracy, Rural Tracy and Mountain House.For more information, please contact the Tracy Fire Department at (209) 831-6700 or email us at firedept@ci.tracy.ca.us
