1. City Of Berkeley Fire Department
Sam Hoffman
CERT
Community Emergency Response Teams
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2. Overview
In the event of a major disaster city resources may become overwhelmed.
It will become important for trained individuals to assist city services with the needs of the community.
Since 1990 over 3000 citizens, employees and students have received training in emergency preparedness.
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3. Features & Benefits
The Berkeley Fire Dept. offers several classes to assist and train the citizen.
This will help individuals cope with situations not normally encountered by the lay-person.
Being able to “act” vs. “react” will make the trained person an asset.
This will allow the professional rescuers to concentrate on the “BIG PROBLEMS”
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4. Classes offered Neighborhood Organization Basic Personal Preparedness
Earthquake Retrofitting
Shelter Operations
Disaster Mental Health
Disaster First Aid
Light Search and Rescue
Fire Suppression-I
Response to Terrorism
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5. Applications
Attending these classes will give you the tools to manage and help your family, house, friends, neighborhood and workplace.
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6. Neighborhood Organization
Neighborhoods organize for many reasons. People may want to request city services,
such as a traffic light or a response to an increase in crime in their area, or they may
want to get together for a summer potluck. The primary concern of Berkeley's Office of
Emergency Services (OES) is to have neighborhoods organized to function as a group,
independent of any outside help, for at least three days following a major disaster and to
continue to support one another during the extended recovery period. We want to give you
as much information about neighborhood organization as possible. We hope that you will
use it, make maps, develop telephone trees and build a friendly neighborhood.
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7. Neighborhood Organization
This section is organized into three parts.
The first is general information about organizing your neighborhood and some ideas about how to keep your group going.
The second explains the tasks and skills neighbors need to respond to a disaster.
The last part presents ideas on how to organize after a disaster.
You are encouraged to take notes and keep this as a reference. We hope the
appendices will be useful to you. Please share your ideas and experiences with us so we can
continue to improve the handbook.
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8. Basic Personal Preparedness
Gives you the knowledge to prepare yourself and your family and home.
What supplies you should have
How to survive for up to 5 days without city services
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9. Earthquake Retrofitting
How to make your house safer
Taught by trained earthquake construction specialists
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10. Shelter Operations
This class offered and taught by American Red Cross disaster workers show you ways to handle living and surviving inside your home when the environment outside may not be safe. By sealing up doors, windows and areas that toxics might enter through. Also tips on storing and maintaining supplies.
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11. Disaster Mental Health
Helps you to cope with the event
How you might feel
Fear
Anger
Apathy
Loss of appetite
Things you may see or exposed to
Loss of life
Loss of Property
Dealing with the emotions of others
How to respond to what your feeling
Healing
Therapy
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12. Disaster First Aid Identify immediate life threatening injuries
Modified form of first aid
START triage
Bandaging and Splinting techniques
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13. Disaster First Aid RPM drill Respirations Perfusion Mental Status
< 30 or >30
Perfusion
< or > then 2 sec.
Mental Status
Alert or not?
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14. Light Search and Rescue
The majority of rescues can be preformed by basic trained personal.
Proper carrying methods to move victims
Conducting a systematic pattern search
Utilizing lever and fulcrum
Basic cribbing technique
Ability to distinguish between types of structural damage
Light, Medium or Heavy
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15. Fire Suppression -I Basic Fire Science Fire prevention
What is fire
How it spreads
How we put it out
Fire prevention
Making out house fire safe
Familiarization of Fire fighting equipment
Hydrants, hoses and fittings
Fire extinguisher drill
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16. Summary The more classes you have the better prepared you’ll be.
Important component of qualifying for future caches that may be distributed.
Ability to maximize use of the contents of caches.
Classes given weekly
Can be found on COB web site
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17. Questions
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18. Thank You
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