Community Emergency Response Team
Maple Valley, WA
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety offers CERT courses for disaster preparedness
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Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a disaster preparedness course designed to create awareness, teach critical skills for assessing a disaster situation and ensure participants gain the confidence they need to react productively and responsibly in a disaster. There are no prerequisites and the cost is a $35 class fee due prior to the start of class. It is an 8 week course and finishes with a disaster simulation after a take home exam.
Course Instruction:
- Disaster Preparedness
- Disaster Medical part 1
- Disaster Medical part 2
- Triage
- Fire Suppression
- Light Search & Rescue
- Disaster Psychology
- Course Review & Disaster Simulation
For specifics, such as dates, times and contact info, click on the link below to their community newspaper.
