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,

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July 2019 CERT Academy – Week 1 – What an Amazing Group

July 2019 CERT Academy – Week 1 – What an Amazing Group

We kicked off our 2019 CERT Academy* with an amazing group of community members and leaders. This is a great class representing all six cities who sponsor our program and a half dozen surrounding communities.

Our first weekend we covered disaster psychology, fire safety, utility control for your home, search and light rescue, and disaster triage and first aid. Quite a lot of terrific information. And thanks to the City of Westminster, we had a delicious Italian meal for Saturday lunch.

As special thanks to all of our instructors and to Dr. Heather Williams for coming out to talk with our class about disaster psychology and the emotional effects of disaster for everyone including responders.

Here’s a quick summary video of weekend 1

 

CERT Academy is for you too!

If you want to find out more about how you too can prepare your family for the next disaster that strikes your neighborhood or Southern California, please sign up here and we will send you an invitation to our next class.

 

* The West Orange County CERT Academy covers the basic FEMA CERT 20 hour training course and includes a full exercise following our graduation ceremonies on the second Saturday.

 

CMAP Class – 6 New Candidates for Level A

CMAP Class – 6 New Candidates for Level A

Orange County CMAP ClassOur 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 WOCC and Ed Kane and Steve Ciolek from Cypress RACES for putting on a quality class. The class would not have happened with out the ongoing support of Loree Erpelding, Julia Clasby, Ed Fleming, and Dave Atkins. We also want to thank the Cypress Police Department for use of their training classroom.

Our 6 new Level A candidates are Hermie Asido, Michelle Charland, Barbara Flack, Karla Padilla, Lance Smith, and Tom Woodward. 

Congratulations to each of you!

October 2018 CMAP Class