CERT Team Training Event

Southwest Johnson County CERT held a team training event on Saturday May 24, 2014. It was a good review of information learned during the initial training I took in the fall of 2013 as well as some additional info not previously covered. And they were smart to provide donuts and coffee!

Training was from 8am - 4pm. Here are some pics from the training day:

Traffic Control - taught by Gardner Police Department

(I apologize for not remembering the Sgts name who presented. I will update as soon as I have that info.)

Hazardous Materials - taught by Chief Keller

Consider how many materials are within storm debris. Can you safely navigate through?

With inter-modal so close, do you know what's traveling down the road?

CERT Team members were provided with this reference guide.

Terrorism - I failed to get instructors name. Will update when I have that.

8 signs for Terrorism, a quick briefing. If you see something say something.

8 Signs of Terrorism:
1. Surveillance 
2. Elicitation
3. Tests of Security
4. Funding
5. Acquiring supplies
6. Impersonation or suspicious people
7. Rehearsals and dry runs
8. Deployment 

The sets we learned in our class. Great info. View the video below for more information.

Recognizing 8 Signs of Terrorism - video

Communication Procedures - taught by Rita and Tony

Rita going over communications procedures for CERT team.

Tony teaching radio communications according to CERT plan. 

Damage assessment - taught by Rita.

Rita teaching the damage assessment portion of the class.

The damage assessment process.

After the classroom portion there was some hands on training:

Fire suppression quick review

Medical quick brief training wrap and go

Cribbing. Look what's under the pile of debris!

Thank you to all the instructors and team members that made this a great training day!

SW Johnson County CERT