Palos Verdes Peninsula Community Emergency Response Team
The PVPCERT is a government/community resource that provides basic training in
disaster preparedness necessary to help you help your family, your neighborhood,
and your community in a disaster. We are a registered California Corporation and
have IRS Tax Exempt status as a nonprofit entity under IRS 501 (c) (3).
- PVPCERT is a Community Emergency Response Team that is unique to the Peninsula area.
- Benefits of such a team can provide for an effective first response.
- Members are provided continuous training.
- PVPCERT team members meet on a bi-monthly basis to review various scenarios dealing with natural disasters
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Palos Verdes will host the Beach Cities Joint CERT
California Great ShakeOut OCTOBER 12, 2013
MEETING SCHEDULE
Meetings are held at Hesse Park in Rancho Palos Verdes at 7:00PM on the 4th Thursday of odd numbered months.
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| January 24, 2013 |
Disaster Preparedness Kits - Part II
During CERT training everyone had an opportunity to find out what are the basics for CERT kit, home/office and car kits. But since then we have all had a chance to learn from drills, refreshers, watching events on TV, may be even responding to an incident. What really works and what doesn't.
- What do you really need?
- How are you going to carry it, if you have to?
- What food lasts the longest - apart from expensive 5 year supplies?
There will be a competition to see who can bring the longest lasting, tastiest, cheapest food item,
suitable for a disaster kit.
We will have a refresher of what is really needed. This is a participation meeting - for those that wish to.
Please bring the things, tips and ideas that you have learned or found. Feel free to bring the actually item,
photos etc and share it with the group. These shared experiences should help all of us to be better prepared.
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| March 21, 2013 |
THIRD Thursday
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| May 23, 2013 |
The next PVP CERT refresher training will be on Community Hazmat Awareness.
When we had our drill in October, this was the most requested topic for training as many didn't know how to deal with a scene with hazardous material.
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June 29, 2013
9:00 am to 1:00 pm
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First Aid, Infant/child/adult CPR
Ridgecrest Intermediate School
28915 North Bay Road
Rancho Palos Verdes CA 90275
The training will be done by Lifeline Rescue and certification will be for 2 years. The cost is $40 per person which includes First Aid, Infant/child/adult CPR The class will be limited. To secure registration, please email cheryldawson@cox.net and mail a check made payable to Lifeline Rescue to 3463 Tanglewood Lane, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274, If you wish to pay by credit card, an invoice will be sent to you by Lifeline Rescue and you can pay on line. There is a $1 processing charge. Enrollement in the class will be when payment has been received.
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July 20, 2013
July 27, 2013
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Amateur Radio Class Flyer
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| July 25, 2013 |
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| September 26, 2013 |
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| October 2013 |
SAVE THE DATE - OCTOBER 12, 2013
Palos Verdes will host the 2013 Beach Cities Joint CERT, California Great ShakeOut drill.
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October 12, 2013
October 19, 2013
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Amateur Radio Class Flyer
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TRAINING SCHEDULE
The approved CERT Course is a 20 hour course and is provided at no charge
to our communities through grants from the Department of Homeland Security,
The State of California and LA County. In order to complete CERT
Certification students must complete the entire 20 hour course. You may
make up missed classes during other CERT Courses anywhere in LA County
based on availability. Visit the LA County Fire Department
web site at fire.lacounty.gov for more details.
We schedule basic CERT training
sessions.
Sign up for CERT classes with the LA County Fire Dept CERT office at
(email) cert@fire.lacounty.gov, or (phone) 888 237-8939.
Sign up for CERT classes with the Laurie Slawson, Palos Verdes Estates Police Department, (310) 378-4211 or
email LSlawson@pvestates.org.
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| CERT Basic Training
Palos Verdes PENINSULA High School
27118 Silver Spur Road,
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
C.E.R.T. training is free
(flyer)
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May 11, 2013
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
Disaster Perparedness, Disaster Medical Operations
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May 18, 2013
9:000 AM - 4:30 PM | Disaster Fire Suppression, Light Search and Rescue, Disaster Psychology
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June 1, 2013
9:000 AM - 4:30 PM | CERT Organization, Terrorism, Review and Simulation
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| CERT Basic Training |
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is an all-risk, all-hazard training. This valuable course is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors and your neighborhood in an emergency situation.
CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens may initially be on their own and their actions can make a difference. While people will respond to others in need without the training, one goal of the CERT program is to help them do so effectively and efficiently without placing themselves in unnecessary danger. In the CERT training, citizens learn to:
- Manage utilities and put out small fires
- Treat the three medical killers by opening airways, controlling bleeding, and
treating for shock
- Provide basic medical aid
- Search for and rescue victims safely
- Organize themselves and spontaneous volunteers to be effective
- Collect disaster intelligence to support first responder efforts
ALL CLASSES MUST BE ATTENDED TO RECEIVE A COURSE CERTIFICATE
STUDENTS ENROLLED IN OTHER GOVERNMENT SPONSORED CERT CLASSES CAN ATTEND ANY OF THE SCHEDULED TRANING MODULES TO COMPLETE THE COURSE.
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Amateur Radio
May 4, 2013
May 11, 2013
9:30AM - 1:45PM
(bring your lunch) |
Flyers for FCC Technician and FCC General classes
May 2013
Amateur Radio: FCC "Technician" (entry level)
Class is free to attend. The text book is $22.00 with test questions.
PowerPoint slides are $18.00.
Students (thru grade 12) who take this course and get their license will be reimbursed up to $50 by the
Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club
For information, contact Walt, K1DFO, at walt.ordway@yahoo.com
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May 11, 2013
March 2, 2013
2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Flyers for FCC Technician and FCC General classes
Amateur Radio: FCC "General" (2nd level)
Class is free to attend. The text book is $26.00 with test questions.
PowerPoint slides are $18.00.
Students (thru grade 12) who take this course and get their license will be reimbursed up to $50 by the
Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club
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PVPCERT training and participation provides essential training and information to enable you to
prepare your homes and families to cope during the critical period immediately following a
disaster. That is when professional emergency services will be taxed beyond capability.
PVPCERT will train you to become part of the solution and to do the most good for the highest
number of people as part of a trained, well managed team. The goal of PVPCERT is to:
- Prepare you, your family and your home to survive a disaster.
- Prepare you to assist families and neighbors in time of a disaster.
- Prepare teams of Peninsula residents as first responders to support regular emergency personnel in a disaster.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff provide training at no cost to the student.
Basic training consists of seven comprehensive training sessions which include demonstrations and
exercises in such areas as:
- Disaster Preparedness
- Disaster Fire Suppression
- Disaster Medical Operations
- Light Search and Rescue
- Disaster Psychology, Organization and Terriorism
- Disaster Simulation and Exercise
HISTORY
The Peninsula Emergency Response Team was developed in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake,
demonstrating the further importance of civilian volunteers. As a result, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
department, in cooperation with the cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, developed PVPCERT with the intent of
giving volunteers a higher level of basic skills in firefighting, search and rescue, disaster medicine, and preparedness.
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