CERT-ainly

Well, it’s official.  Tuesday is my first CERT training class.  It’ll be Tuesdays and Thursdays for three weeks, and then one full Saturday.  Then annual refresher training days.

CERT is the Community Emergency Response Team - a volunteer organization meant to help the police and fire departments in the event of a large scale emergency, where the PD and FD would maybe be taxed beyond their ability to get to every neighborhood.  It includes basic medical/triage, fire suppression, search and rescue, etc.  Some fantastic people have done it.  [Edit - Whoops, apparently, there’s more than one fantastic person out there!]

Obviously, beyond training, all involvement is voluntary.  I help my family first, and if and when I can leave them somewhere safe, I help the rest of the neighborhood.

More than that, it’s something interesting to do, and it’ll give me good skills to help the family in the event of a large earthquake or something.  And it gets me out of the house.  Without a baby.  Me.  Yeah!

Oh, and I’ll get my very own hardhat out of the deal.