West Orange County CERT (Community Emergency Response Team for Western Orange County California)
West Orange County CERT serves the Western Orange County CA communities of Seal Beach, Cypress, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, La Palma, Buena Park, and Westminster,
A huge Team Shout Out to the hardy members and Police Explorers who braved the rain and cold on Wednesday evening to help Ray and Dave unload the Seal Beach CERT Trailer. The job needed to be done and these folks showed up and took care of business. Thankyouverymuch! Pictured from left to right are Ray, […]
The neighbors along Schooner Way in Seal Beach got together for a Neighbor 4 Neighbor® event on Saturday 10/27/2018 and had a terrific turn out. Jeannie Dennison and a team of block captains arranged the event in the park along Schooner Way. The day was primarily for the neighbors to get out and meet each […]
Our October Team meeting was held at the Cypress Community Center and did we have a great turnout – WOW! More than 40 Team members brought a large assortment of store bought and home made food items: salads, chicken, pizza, macaroni casserole and enough desserts to feed an army of locust. Nicely done Team! After […]
Our initial CMAP class for West Orange County CERT was a complete success, This class was based on the updated July 2018 CERT Mutual Aid Program materials released by Orange County CMAP, and it produced 6 new WOCC Level A candidates. A huge thanks to our class facilitators Kris Moskowitz, Michelle Hosejsi, Art Remnet from […]
It was a warm day at the Leisure World Expo last Saturday (9/15) and the Expo was very well attended. At the West Orange County CERT booth we were busy with visitors and answered numerous questions about safety, preparedness and how they could get trained. Nearly 20 people signed up to be notified of our […]
Congratulations and a warm welcome to the 60 new CERT Academy graduates and thank each of you for showing up and digging in to the weekend. We all learned a lot and had some fun and met some new friends while we were at it. And a HUGE thanks to all the CERT Members who […]
On the second weekend we start off with a always great pot-luck dinner with the class and then dive into both disaster psychology and how CERT responds to terrorism (hint: report what you see happening and then leave the terrorist activity to the professionals) with some tips on how to keep yourself and family safe. […]