Starting out 5/28/2013 Rotary

Can you hear us now? City EOC 5/28/2013 Rotary

Controlling chaos City EOC 5/28/2013 Rotary

Communications needed to expand along with the growth of CERT 2013 City Manager asks Gayle to set up ER CERT Repeater for city wide coverage CERO program established 1500 trained EBRCSA offers assistance 2004 2012 CCFD Training ~ 1000 trained members AT&T Grant for CP to EOC 2007 WC establishes 9 CERT regional CPs Assumes training “Yellow Box” CP to EOC communications for all areas 2010 300 trained No way to communicate 2008 FRS radios for SAR to CP communications First Cache established 5/28/2013 Rotary

CERT Communications is supported by active dedicated volunteers 5/28/2013 Rotary

The twice yearly graduation exercise trains each of our IC staffs and team (~160 participants) 5/28/2013 Rotary

A Big Thanks to the Rotary for its support The CERT radio repeater project was created to provide additional “bandwidth” to support the expected heavy volume of traffic that will occur on the CERT “yellow box” net during a city wide emergency and provide city wide mobile coverage. The EBRCSA communications system offered our CERT organization the opportunity to mount a very efficient and effective radio antenna on a newly installed tower adjacent to Hwy 24 in the BART right-of-way. Rotary funds financed a major portion of that expense! 5/28/2013 Rotary