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Clovis CERT
How the Cadre
Was Built
Citizen Volunteers
• Quality vs. Quantity
• Meaningful “Stuff to
Do”
• Capitalizing on
Volunteer Interest
or innate skills sets
• It’s not just about
disasters
• It is about
partnerships
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
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
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
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
Sand Bagging
• Staffed for two nights in collaboration
with Public Utilities
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1/3/08 – 19 members
1/4/08 – 12 members
1600 bags created over two nights
Assignments: filling, loading, distribution to
residents, traffic control
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
Emergency Assistance Unit
• CERT personnel trained in collaboration with ARC
• On-Scene Victim Support
– Clothing
– Child essentials
• Hydration
• SCBA bottles
Emergency Assistance Unit
2010
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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
2008-2009
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StormReady Certification –
1st in the Valley (1/14/08) in
collaboration with NWS
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Station 1 Opening (1/26/08)
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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
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10 CERT members trained
as part of certification
12 for an MCI drill October
2007
10 for evacuation drill
3/26/08
CERT graduates come back
to design and proctor fullscale exercises at the end of
every subsequent CERT
class
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