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The focus of the training is normally delivered in eight 2 ½ hour blocks as follows:
| Emergency Preparedness |
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Disaster workers, threats, impact on the infrastructure, structural and non-structural hazards, and hazard mitigation
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| Fire Safety |
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Fire chemistry, hazardous materials, reducing hazards, CERT size up, firefighting resources safety, and fire suppression
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| Emergency Medical-Part I |
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Recognizing and treating life threatening conditions and triage
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| Emergency Medical-Part II |
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Organization of disaster medical operations, head-to-toe assessments; establishing treatment areas; treating burns; wound care;, treating fractures;, sprains; and strains splinting; hypothermia; frostbite and public health considerations
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| Light Search and Rescue Operations |
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Planning; size-up, conducting search/rescue; and cribbing techniques
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| CERT Organization |
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Decision-making; documentation; and tabletop exercise
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| Disaster Psychology |
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Teams Well-being, working with survivors' of disasters or emergency situations
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| Terrorism and CERT |
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Define and identify terrorism, B-NICE indicators
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| Course Review and Disaster Simulation |
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Final exam; course review; disaster simulation; and exercise critique and summar
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Please view the public events calendar for the dates of training classes.
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