What Does the Course Involve?
The course consists of 21 hours of training one night a week for seven weeks. Classes are taught by trained emergency personnel including firefighters and paramedics.
The target audience for this course is private citizens, businesses, and schools who desire the skills and knowledge required to prepare for and respond to a disaster.
Upon completion of this course the participants will be able to:
- Describe the types of hazards that are most likely to affect their homes and community.
- Describe the function of CERT and their role in immediate response.
- Take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster.
- Identify and reduce potential fire hazards in their home or workplace.
- While working as a team apply basic fire suppression strategies, resources, and safety measures to extinguish a burning liquid.
- Apply techniques for opening airways, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock.
- Conduct triage under simulated disaster conditions.
- Perform head to toe assessments.
- Select and set up a treatment area.
- Employ basic treatments for various wounds and apply splints to suspected fractures and sprains.
- Identify planning and size up requirements for potential search and rescue situations.
- Describe the most common techniques for searching a structure.
- Use safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication.
- Describe ways to protect rescuers during search and rescue.
Course Agenda
Week 1: Disaster Preparedness
Introduction to disasters, impact of disasters on infrastructures, hazards posed by buildings and nonstructural items, the role of CERTs in disaster response, earthquake awareness, personal and family preparation.
Week 2: Disaster Fire Suppression
Identifying and reducing potential fire hazards, basic fire suppression strategy, firefighting resources, firefighting techniques, hazardous materials.
Week 3: Disaster Medical Operations (Part 1)
Treatment strategies for life threatening conditions and principles of triage, treatment area management.
Week 4: Disaster Medical Operations (Part 2)
Head to toe assessments, treatment for head wounds, treatment for fractures, sprains, burns, and other injuries, disaster psychology.
Week 5: Light Search and Rescue Operations
Search and rescue priorities and resources, techniques for size up and search, lifting, cribbing, and removing victims, rescuer safety.
Week 6: Team Organization and Management
Developing a response team, the Incident Command System, CERT strategies, tactics, and documentation.
Week 7: Course Review and Disaster Simulation
Disaster simulation and critique.
Available Training
SLCo Unified Fire Authority
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