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Basic CERT training will teach participants to:

1. Describe the types of hazards most likely to affect their homes and communities.
2. Describe the function of Ready Teams and their roles in immediate response.
3. Take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster.
4. Identify and reduce potential hazards in their homes and workplaces.
5. Work as a team to apply basic fire suppression strategies, resources, and safety measures to extinguish a burning liquid.
6. Apply techniques for opening airways, controlling bleeding, and treating shock.
7. Conduct triage under simulated conditions.
8. Perform head to-toe assessments.
9. Select and set up treatment area.
10. Employ basic treatments for various wounds.
11. Identify planning and size-up requirements for potential search and rescue situations.
12. Describe the most common techniques for searching a structure.
13. Use safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication.
14. Describe ways to protect rescuers during search and rescue.

The Basic CERT Training modules include:

• Disaster Awareness, Hazard Mitigation, and Community Emergency Response Team Concepts.
• Utility Control, Fire Suppression. Hazardous Materials.
• Disaster Medicine—Triage and treatment of minor and life threatening injuries
• Light Search and Rescue—Visual assessment of damaged buildings, search techniques, rescue techniques and patient transport
• Team Response and Management
• Terrorism and Community Response Teams
• Final Exercise

Sessions require approximately 20 hours total to complete. Sessions will typically be conducted one evening a week for nine weeks.

Syllabi:  CERT Basic Training

Training Locations:

Most of the classes will be held at the Beaverton Resource Center located at 12500 SW Allen Blvd. (corner of Allen and Hall Blvd.).

Fire Safety, Light Search and Rescue, and the Final Exercise will be conducted at Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue’s Training Center at 12400 SW Tonquin Rd. in Sherwood. Using this location will ensure safe and effective training and evaluation of the teams, in a realistic environment.

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