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Date and time
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Location
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Topics
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Participant Prep
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Instructors
(qualifications below)
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Jan 19
Friday
1800 – 2100
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VIFR Stn 55
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Intro to Incident Command System:
Jump-start your on-line study and prep to take ICS 100 and 700 tests on-line. This is NOT a refresher or overview; it is a “primer” to get you started on key vocabulary and concepts, and demystify the on-line material and process. Testing is on-line.
Guaranteed to save you time on-line, and some anxiety!
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Look at the two courses, ICS 100b and 700a on-line at:
https://training.fema.gov
(under the Independent Study tab) Preview course study material (free, easy, no passwords required yet)
Laptop not required, but bring it if you have one
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Jan Milligan
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Jan 26
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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Medical:
Triage & head-to-toe assessment; written reports on patients.
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Review triage and HTT sections of CERT textbook. Vashon’s patient forms will be sent out with training announcement
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Jan Milligan, Susan Kutscher, Doug Milligan and Rick Brown
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Feb 9
Friday
1800 -2200
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VIFR stn 58
Dockton
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Radio Communications:
Refresher and practice with 2-way radio. Review of on-air protocols, confidentiality and Vashon customs for using radio versus other forms of communication. Plenty of practice conversations on the air in teams and pairs.
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If you have an FRS radio, practice setting it to different channels. Bring it with batteries. Practice the phonetic alphabet or review your notes from any radio training
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Michael Meyer and Tom Allen
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Feb 21
Wednesday
1800 - 2100
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VIFR stn 55
EOC room
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Basic First Aid:
Assisting a patient, wound care, Heimlich maneuver for choking, CPR and use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED)
This is not a CERT course; Vern teaches this independent class on his own, for a $42 fee. Course is an official course of Medic First Aid (Oregon)
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Vern Trevellyan
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Feb 23
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy & training yard
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Search & Rescue:
Review of several types: in a damaged building, house-to-house, and outdoor search for missing person.
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Review SAR section of CERT textbook
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Jan Milligan, Jim Lilje, Corinne Harmon
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March 3
Saturday
0900 - 1400
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Island Center Forest
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**Search & Rescue exercise:
Activate a CP and search teams to look for a missing individual. Practice patient treatment and transport, documentation and demobilizing.
Utilize trained leaders to run CP.
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Dress for outdoor exercise
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Jan, Jim & Corinne
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March 14
Wednesday
1800 - 2100
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VIFR stn 55
EOC room
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Basic First Aid:
Assisting a patient, wound care, Heimlich maneuver for choking, CPR and use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED)
This is not a CERT course; Vern teaches this independent class on his own, for a $42 fee. Course is an official course of Medic First Aid (Oregon)
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Vern Trevellyan
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March 23
Friday
1800 - 2200
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Prep active CERT team members to coach skills during first 5 weeks of basic CERT course:
Fire, utilities, SAR and medical
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Team members who want to help with the course should pick one of the topics at left, review that section of the CERT textbook, and plan to attend this prep session plus the evening the topic is taught.
Additional opportunities to help are with DDD, for which prep is on June 1, DDD on June 3.
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Jan, Jim, Rick, Susan, Corinne and Chief Larsen
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March 31
Saturday
0900 – 1400
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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Household safety and disaster preparedness:
Food, meds, shelter, sanitation, how Vashon will tick in a disaster, preparing for no ferries, fire safety, alternative comms, gas/elec safety, and what is a NERO (Unit 1 of CERT text plus more)
This portion of the CERT course will be offered to the general public as a stand-alone seminar. Participants interested in taking CERT training can then continue. This 5-hour seminar covers the community and home preparedness topics in Unit 1 of the textbook.
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Jan, Rick Wallace, Vicky de Monterey Richoux, Michael Meyer, PSE (Patti McClements) and a VIFR Chief
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April 6
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Intro, CERT policies and personal protection, team-building activity, more on roles of Vashon agencies and citizen groups in a disaster and how the island will tick.
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Read Unit 1 of CERT textbook
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Jan, Jim Lilje
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April 13
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
Incl training yard
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CERT basic course:
Fire & utilities
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Read Unit 2 of CERT textbook
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Rick Brown
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April 20
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Triage, treating life-threatening conditions and intro to running a field treatment center
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Read Unit 3
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Susan Kutscher & Rick Brown
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April 27
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Disaster medical operations and treatment (wound care, burns, splinting, etc.) and Head-to-Toe assessments
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Read Unit 4
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May 4
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Search and Rescue, part 1 (classroom mostly)
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Read Unit 5
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Rick Brown
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May 11
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
Incl training yard
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CERT basic course:
Search and Rescue part 2 (practice in VIFR Conex “apartment” and other training structures)
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Dress for being outdoors most of the evening, regardless of the weather. We’ll be crawling around a dirty Conex and other structures; dress accordingly.
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At this point in the course or after the May 18 disaster psych session, people who do not want to join the active Vashon CERT team can excuse themselves from the remainder of the training.
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May 18
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Disaster psych and human behaviors. Terrorism.
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Read Units 7 & 8
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Michael Cochrane
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May 25
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
CERT organization and mobilization, ICS principles, documentation, running a CERT Command Post, accountability and team functions
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Read Unit 6
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Jan
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June 1
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
Incl training yard
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Prep active CERT team members for roles in Sunday’s disaster simulation:
CP leadership, patients, radio comms, etc.
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Study materials that will be distributed via email prior to this prep session
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Jim & CERT Team
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June 3
Sunday
0800 – 1600
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
Incl training yard
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CERT basic course:
Disaster simulation (aka Disaster Day Drill)
Morning review sessions, then DDD with experienced CP leaders, thorough debrief & hotwash. Clean up.
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Arrive as early as you need to, to prepare for your role
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Jim and CERT Team
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June 8
Friday
1800 – 2100
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT basic course:
Joining the active Vashon team (expectations), REW applications, course evaluation.
Graduation!
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June 29
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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**Maps & Vashon addressing
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VIFR Assistant Chief Bob Larsen
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July 13 - CHANGED TO October 5...
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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**Radio 101
Use of FRS, guidelines for radio use on Vashon
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John Galus
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July 27
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 58 Dockton
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**CERT CP’s at VIFR stations
CERT roles and responsibilities working for VIFR at one of their stations
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Jan
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Aug 18
Saturday
0900 – 1400
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Paradise Ridge Park
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Outdoor Skills:
Workshops on pace counting, map/compass, search techniques, ropes/knots and ratchet straps, strapping a load on a trailer, and other skills TBD
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Sept 21
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 56 Burton and 58 Dockton
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Island Assessment process and use of CERT generators
Learn the 6 routes, get your updated kit of worksheets and maps, practice submitting reports of various urgency, and learn to use CERT’s portable generators.
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Jan & Jim
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Sept 28 OR
Oct 5...stay tuned |
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** Intro to Radio |
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John Galus |
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Two 4-hr sessions:
Sept 23 and
October 7
0900 – 1300
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VIFR Stn 58 Dockton
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## CP Leadership training
(two-part series)
Learn about and practice key roles in running a CERT CP and leading your peers: leader, operations, reception, logistics, radio, and a number of the other support functions a CP might need (message center, first aid treatment area, pit toilet, etc.) Learn to operate both inside and outside a building.
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Review Unit 6 of CERT textbook and materials that will be emailed in advance of first class.
Enrollment limited to 10 people.
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Jan
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Oct 6
Saturday
1000 - 1400
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VIFR Stn 55
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VIFR Open House:
Mini trainings for the public on simple skills (fire extinguishers, propane and natural gas safety, first aid, and CPR)
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Oct 20
Saturday
0900 - 1400
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TBD
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**Major Medical Disaster Response Exercise
We’ll practice standard CERT response of organizing ourselves with a focus on medical care
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Marge Mazie
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November 9
Friday
1800 – 2100
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Intro to Incident Command System:
Jump-start your on-line study and prep to take ICS 100 and 700 tests on-line. This is NOT a refresher or overview; it is a “primer” to get you started on key vocabulary and concepts, and demystify the on-line material and process. Testing is on-line.
Guaranteed to save you time on-line, and some anxiety!
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See January 19
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Jan
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Nov 30
Friday
1800 – 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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Gear Night and Annual Wrap-Up
Team members share and teach about gear and equipment they love for CERT; awards and recognition; mini intro to new Vashon EOC set-up; share ideas for 2019 CERT trainings
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Jan
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