Clovis CERT

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Clovis CERT
How the Cadre Was Built
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Citizen Volunteers

• Quality vs. Quantity
• Meaningful Stuff to Do
• Capitalizing on Volunteer Interest or innate
  skills sets
• Its not just about disasters
• It is about partnerships

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CERT

• Community Benefits
• Year round support through volunteer programs
• Reduces burden on first responder services by
  promoting mitigation and preparedness measures
• Creates well trained, better informed, and better
  prepared citizens to take care of themselves and
  others during times of crisis -- allowing first
  responders to address the most critical needs

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Fire Extinguisher Training

• Farmers Market
• Collaboration with Chamber of Commerce. . FREE!
• Eight Friday evenings from June September
• Public Information re CERT and fire extinguisher
  training for kids

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Heat Wave Support

• Staffed for 5 nights from 5 10pm in
  collaboration with Senior Services Division
• Results
• Provided relief for 15 people displaced by the
  extreme heat
• Made over 160 phone calls to special needs
  citizens to ensure they had adequate cooling and
  were staying hydrated

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Downtown Electrical Parade 12/03/11

• 12 Members in collaboration with PD
• Assignments Traffic control, parade route crowd
  control, barricade placement, transport to PD
  Command Center

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Sand Bagging

• Staffed for two nights in collaboration with
  Public Utilities
• 1/3/08 19 members
• 1/4/08 12 members
• 1600 bags created over two nights
• Assignments filling, loading, distribution to
  residents, traffic control

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Mass Care/Shelter Trailer

• Support for 200
• Blankets, Cots, Care Kits
• Supplied consistent with ARC requirements and MOU
  drafted for deployment out of area by ARC

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Emergency Assistance Unit

• CERT personnel trained in collaboration with ARC
• On-Scene Victim Support
• Clothing
• Child essentials
• Hydration
• SCBA bottles

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Emergency Assistance Unit
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2010
2008-2009

• Total Volunteer Hours 8,689
• Teen CERT program graduated 42 students at CART
• Responded to 4 house fires with EAU support
• Graduated 30 basic CERT members
• 12 personnel certified in CPR/AED
• Provided 200 scholarship to one Teen CERT
  graduate
• Performed 5 training exercises
• Rehabilitated arson destroyed playground

• StormReady Certification 1st in the Valley
  (1/14/08) in collaboration with NWS
• 10 CERT members trained as part of certification
• Station 1 Opening (1/26/08)
• Public Education Booth
• Joint MCI Exercise w/ Sacramento CERT (4/19
  4/20)
• 22 Presidential Service Awards for members with
  1,000 hours of service
• Victims
• 12 for an MCI drill October 2007
• 10 for evacuation drill 3/26/08
• CERT graduates come back to design and proctor
  full-scale exercises at the end of every
  subsequent CERT class

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How/Why does it Work?

• Strong Leadership Team comprised of volunteers
  that hold each other accountable
• Disaster Services Supervisor gets out of the way
• Sense of Community is already strong in Clovis
• COLLABORATION WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS
• Be creative
• Think about joining forces and blurring boundaries