Hollywood CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) - City of Hollywood, Florida CERT

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The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program helps train volunteers to assist first responders in emergency situations in their own communities. CERT members provide critical support to first responders in emergency situations, provide assistance to

victims, organize spontaneous volunteers at a disaster site and collect disaster intelligence to support first responder efforts. The role of a CERT volunteer is self-help/neighbor-help until such time as trained first-response personnel arrive.

The CERT course is taught in your community by a trained team of people who have completed a CERT Train-the-Trainer course conducted by their official state training office for

emergency management or FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI). Training of CERT volunteers consists of 20+ hours of instruction on topics that include disaster preparedness, disaster fire suppression, basic disaster medical operations, light search and rescue operations and terrorism.

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