CERT Events

CERT Refresher, Saturday, May 17
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Come practice and refresh the skills you learned during the Basic CERT Program Course.

Saturday, May 17, 2008
8:00am - 4:30pm (Registration starts at 7:00am)

Long Beach Fire Department Training Center
2249 Argonne Avenue
Long Beach 90815
(Thomas Brothers: 796 B3)

Sign up at http://www.cert-la.com/refresher.htm

NEW: The refresher organizers have arranged for Subway to sell box lunches at the refresher. Please fill out the form at http://www.cert-la.com/refresher-lunch.htm to submit your order. If you have dietary limitations, bring your own lunch. ALL SUBWAY ORDERS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY TUESDAY, MAY 13 AT 8PM.

Station Rotations include:

* Disaster Preparedness/Red Cross
* Fire Extinguisher
* Triage
* Medical/Treatment
* Vendor Displays - USAR Demos - Lifeguards
* Search and Rescue
* ICS (Incident Command System)
* Cribbing

Each station will provide instructional information and hands-on experience to participants

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Quarterly Division Trainings

This quarter's topic is Documentation.

The vision of the Division Trainings is to provide either new CERT-related training topics or to review existing CERT topics to increase the "Ready Responsiveness" of our CERT teams.

We offer one topic, three times, in three different locations in Los Angeles (once in each of our City Fire Divisions) over a 3-month period. That way, CERT members have three different opportunities to attend the training in three different locations. We have four training topics each year.

Training will be either conducted by LAFD members of the CERT Unit or by qualified specialists on the subject matter.

Quarterly Division Trainings are open to all CERT graduates regardless of affiliation.

Los Angeles CERT members must submit completed CERT Volunteer Enrollment Forms prior to the event.

CERT members from other agencies must submit copies of their CERT IDs or CERT certificates prior to the event.

Fax all paperwork to 818-804-5302.

Sign up online and get directions at http://www.cert-la.com/quarterly-trainings.htm

Bring copies of the CERT forms with you. You can download them at http://www.cert-la.com/forms/forms.htm

~~ Monday, June 2
7pm-9pm

Fire Station 88
5101 North Sepulveda Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

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If you have not received Level 2 or 3 rockers, they will be available that night.  Copies of your Red Cross cards are required for our files. Please let us know what rockers you need by putting a note in the Additional Information box when you sign up.

LA CERT patches will also be available for $5.

Linda Underwood
for www.cert-la.com

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PLEASE NOTE:

We have been doing tests of the automated call-out system for Division Call-Outs. We will no longer use the Battalion Call-Out System.

If you have signed up for a Division Call-Out Team or a REDY Team, and you did not get a test call, let us know. If you want to be on a call-out team, please sign up at http://www.cert-la.com/call-out-register.htm

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Linda Underwood
cert-la@usa.net

Regarding Earthquakes

NBC recently broadcast "10.5," a two-part miniseries about a series of unrealistic earthquakes, culminating in an earthquake that separates a portion of southern California from the mainland.

While the miniseries contained many of the myths that we have worked to dispel, the attention creates an educational opportunity.

The Earthquake Country Alliance, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have created a series of web pages addressing the miniseries, to separate fact from movie fiction.

The pages are at http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5

The web pages include:
* links to official comments from state and federal organizations
* a list of many of the errors in the miniseries and why they are wrong
* earthquake preparedness information
* lesson plans to help teachers respond to their students' concerns or questions
* links to many other earthquake-related websites
* the online version of the updated "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country."

The idea is that if you have questions, or if others ask you questions, you can simply refer to these web pages at http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5.

If you have questions about the website, think they omitted something important, or want to make any other comments, please contact Ilene Cooper at icooper@usc.edu or Wendy Shindle at wshindle@usgs.gov, who have worked together to create this resource.