CERT Team (Community Emergency Response Team)

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program helps train people to be better prepared to respond to the emergency situations in their communities.

When emergencies happen, our CERT members can give critical support to first responders, provide immediate assistance to victims, and organize spur-of-the-moment volunteers at a disaster site. CERT members can also help with non-emergency projects that help improve the safety of the community.

The CERT course is taught in the community by a trained team of first responders who have completed a CERT Train-The-Trainer course conducted by their state training office for emergency management, or FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI).

CERT training includes disaster preparedness, disaster fire suppression, basic disaster medical operations, and light search and rescue operations.