Welcome to the
Community Emergency Response Team
You Can't Predict...But You Can Prepare
This site is "Of CERT, By CERT, and For CERT Graduates." While we work closely with the Los Angeles Fire Department Disaster Preparedness Section, we who created this site and maintain it are CERT graduates and volunteers. We are not an official part of the LAFD. Our goal is to provide information, a forum for discussion, and a point of contact between Community Emergency Response Teams and CERT members everywhere.
Questions, ideas or suggestions? Let us know!
New to CERT or Not Yet CERT
CERT is provided free of charge within the city of Los Angeles to anyone 18 or over.
Classes are taught year-round, Monday-Friday, morning, afternoon, or evening. We will come to your location. Classes can be held anywhere in the City of Los Angeles. Classes outside of LA City require special preapproval.Go to our class schedule and click on a class to get more information.
You can also check a map of the Los Angeles area to see upcoming CERT classes.
To schedule a class for your group, you need a minimum of 20 people to be trained and a location to hold the training. Then call the Disaster Preparedness Section at 818-756-9674.
NEWS
Recently, we have received several emails from people asking if, when there
is an earthquake, they should stand or lie down near a sofa or get underneath a doorway.
Official rescue teams from the U.S. and other countries who have searched for
trapped people in collapsed structures around the world, as well as emergency
managers, researchers, and school safety advocates, all agree that "Drop, Cover,
and Hold On" is the appropriate action to reduce injury and death during earthquakes.
Methods like standing in a doorway, running outside, and "triangle of
life" method are considered dangerous and are not recommended.
See http://www.dropcoverholdon.org/ and
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/step5.html.
Please share this information with your families, friends,
neighborhoods and businesses.
Also, go to http://www.shakeout.org/ and sign up for the Great
California ShakeOut on October 21 at 10:21 a.m.
On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck the nation of Haiti, causing
catastrophic damage inside and around the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
President Obama has promised the people of Haiti that "you will not be forsaken;
you will not be forgotten." The United States Government has mobilized resources
and manpower to aid in the relief effort.
Here are some ways that you can get involved.
LAFD ACS-CERT Communications Plan
LAFD CERT Code of Conduct
LAFD CERT Photo ID Cards
CERT Graduates
| We had a great time at the CERT refresher on Sunday, August 16, at LAFD Fire Station 88. | |
| Click here for an overview of all the Battalions in Los Angeles. | |
| Would you like to meet other CERT graduates in your community, find out what others are doing, and get extra training? Get in touch with the local contact person for your area and check the CERT Community Meetings calendar!
Wednesday, September 8
7:00 pm
-8:30 pm
:
Battalions 1, 2 & 7 CERT Community Meeting
Monday, October 4
6:00 pm
-7:00 pm
:
Battalions 3, 6 & 13 CERT Community Meeting
Thursday, October 14
7:00 pm
-9:00 pm
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Battalions 4, 9, and 18 CERT Community Meeting
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| The Quarterly Division Trainings provide either new CERT-related training topics or 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 offer four training topics each year. Tuesday, September 14
7:00 pm
-9:00 pm
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Quarterly Division Training - Medical - Division 1 - CLASS IS FULL
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| If you'd like to keep informed of events, drills, changes to the website, or new opportunities that become available, please send us your name and email address. (The LAFD respects the confidentiality of any information you gave when you registered for your CERT training, and this website has no access to that information.) Also let us know if you're a CERT graduate or if you're still considering it or if you're from another city. Thank you! | |
| For Fulfilling Our Mission, Mass Care: An Overview, Shelter Operations and Shelter Simulation classes, go to the Red Cross Disaster Training Schedule
(When you go to a class, let the instructor know you are with CERT!) |
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Effective 07/12/08: Each Call-Out Team member shall:
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Non-Discrimination Policy
The LAFD CERT Training only conducts non-discriminatory classes.
Non-discrimination includes race, religion, gender, and group affiliations.
For full text of the Policy as stated to the Instructors, please read non-discrimination.pdf.
As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. For additional information, please contact the Los Angeles Fire Department, Disaster Preparedness Section, at 818-756-9674 (Voice), 213-473-7704 (TDD), or email: lafdcert@lacity.org.
