· Current active team members must attend at least 4 trainings per year (their choice of any topics)
· New grads must also take the four ** mandatory classes to earn green sweatshirt (Radio 101, Maps/addressing, CERT CP's and participate in ONE of the field exercises such as this year's search in March or the disaster in the fall)
· Training and study that active team members should do on their own includes: ICS 100 & 700; driving the 6 Island Assessment routes and learning the critical locations; driving the island in general to learn roads and neighborhoods, walking parks and wildland area trails, attend KCSARA trainings and/or take classes on-line.
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2019
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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January 12
Saturday
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VIFR Stn 58
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Disaster Medical Exercise |
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Marge Mazie |
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Jan 26
Saturday
0900 - 1400
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VIFR Stn 55
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Household Preparedness Seminar:
Food, water, meds, sanitation, neighborhood cooperation, how Vashon will tick in a disaster.
Also, home fire prevention, electrical and gas safety
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Jan Milligan, Rick Wallace, Vicky de Monterey-Richoux, Fire Chief Charlie Krimmert, Puget Sound Energy gas and electric experts
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Feb 1
Friday
1800 -2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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All-Things FIRE:
Fire behavior, chemicals, utilities, treating burns
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Rick Brown
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Feb 22
Friday
1800 -2200
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VIFR stn 55
Farcy
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Disaster Medical
Practice wound care including complicated bandaging, triage, head-to-toe assessment and other skills we can cram into 4 hours.
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Review disaster medical section of your textbook
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Rick Brown
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March 1
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR stn 55
Farcy
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Search and Rescue
Protocols for searching inside a building with organized teams and appropriate communications. Review house-to-house protocol.
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Rick Brown
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March 15-17
Fri-Sat-Sun
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VIFR Stn 55
Old EOC in office on north side of Bank Rd.
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Ham Radio: get your entry-level license
Email Jan Milligan for course details and how to sign up. certcomms@vashonbeprepared.org
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Tammy Zoch
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March 29
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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CERT Organization
How we activate, two leadership models, team organization, deploying field teams, documentation, communication
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Jan Milligan
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April 3 and 5
Wed & Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR stn 55
Farcy
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Protocols and Procedures
Review our generic protocols, Jobs 1 and 2, safety, comms and general procedures for most activations
This session is offered on both dates...choose which one is most convenient for you. Same material both evenings.
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Jim Lilje and Jan M
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April 26
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
Farcy
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Intro to Radio Comms in CERT
Use of radio for intra- and inter-team communication; when/why phone or in-person communications are best choice. Proper vocabulary and courtesy on-the air. Care and feeding of low-power FRS radios (ones that don't require a license) and practice on-the-air with those little units.
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John Galus
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May 3
Friday
1800 - 2300
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A Vashon park TBD |
Search and Rescue exercise
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May 17
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 55
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Vashon Addresses and Maps
Learn how Vashon's address system works, how to properly give directions, why we don't use left/right, why Bank Road should have been called SW 176th St and other island navigation insights.
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Marie Bradley and Lizzy Corliss |
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May 31
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR Stn 58
Dockton
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CERT Command Posts
Our roles and responsibilities when operating at a Vashon fire station: how we organize, leadership models, resources available to us, protecting fire dept property and equipment, and ways we serve the public.
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Jan Milligan
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June 7
Friday
1800 - 2200
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VIFR stns
59 and 56
North and Burton
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Station tours and generators
Learn the layout and resources at these two stations, plus how to use CERT's portable generators. Meet at 1800 at North End station 59. After tour there, we'll caravan to Burton 56.
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Training for the rest of the year will be scheduled this spring
CERT trainers and instructors:
Jan Milligan, CERT Manager: retired camp director and non-profit executive; extensive teaching experience, outdoor skills and advanced first aid training/experience. Completed CERT Manager course 2015. CERT basic course graduate 2007.
Jim Lilje: retired commercial pilot; current flight instructor; CERT member and trainer for 8 years; completed CERT Train-the-Trainer & CERT Manager courses
Rick Brown: Training Specialist (firefighter and EMT) with VIFR; fire academy instructor for Washington State Firefighters Academy; first aid and CPR instructor
Corinne Harmon: technical writer; retail store manager; certified search and rescue volunteer with King Co Search and Rescue Association; small animal expert
Marge Mazie: expert wilderness medical trainer and technician
Marie Bradley: retired EMT from Vashon Fire, and retired rural mail carrier; CERT active team member and equestrian team member
Lizzy Corliss: current firefighter/EMT with Vashon Fire; CERT Graduate
John Galus: lifelong Ham radio hobbyist and expert; retired information technology manager for the banking industry