OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — The Ottawa County Community Emergency Response Team, known as CERT, will be offering their 24-hour CERT basic training course over a span of three Saturdays in June.
This course will be located at the Ottawa County Fillmore Street Complex, 12220 FillmoreSt., in West Olive.
CERT Basic Training is comprised of eight units and an exam/disaster simulation. The class will be held from 8:00 am – 5:00 p.m. on Saturday June 8, June 15 and June 22, 2019.
Attendance at all three sessions is required to receive a CERT certificate.
Training sessions address the following:
- Disaster Preparedness
- Fire Safety
- Disaster Medical Operations
- Light Search and Rescue
- CERT Organization
- Disaster Psychology
- Terrorism and CERT
- Disaster Simulation
CERT is about readiness, people helping people, rescuer safety, and doing the greatestgood for the greatest number. CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency anddisaster situations where citizens will be initially on their own and their actions can make adifference.
CERT is one of the Citizen Corps programs under the U. S. Department of Homeland
Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In Ottawa County, CERT isorganized and supported by Ottawa County Emergency Management.
CERT Basic Training is free to all Ottawa County Residents and is on a first come, firstserved basis; space is limited. Training participants are not required to become OttawaCounty CERT Members; however, information will be available at the training to learn moreabout how to apply for Ottawa County CERT membership and other ways to apply your newskills in service of the community.
To register visit the CERT site.
For more information you may contact Jay Poll, Ottawa County CERT Chief Coordinator at OCCERT.CC@Gmail.com or Ottawa County Emergency Management at (616) 738-4052.
