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CERT

Community Emergency Response Team

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Since 1993, CERT has impacted communities across the country, building essentials skills and […]

Hurricane Sandy Photo Credit: NASA GOES Project

Emergency Preparedness Planning at Home and in the Workplace

Emergencies of all sorts can happen at any moment and at any place. It doesn’t matter where you are, when emergency strikes, it hits by surprise. But, this doesn’t mean that you cannot be ready for it and do some emergency preparedness planning. The truth is, most things in life are like emergencies – they […]