The monthly NG CERT meeting on August 2nd at 7PM will be at our cache on Valley Vista Rd. at the golf course maintenance facility. Directions are attached below. Dress to be outside in the shade for the meeting.
SAVE THE DATE ## October 28th – Fall city-wide drill ##
Please plan to participate int he drill for the Northgate area. We need all hands on deck to set up and run the Command Post with Comms, Med Ops, Animals Staging; plus field SAR teams for windshield surveys. More info will be distributed in September. I’d like for our HAMs to spread out and test Comms on all the preset simplex frequencies allocated to NG CERT – we need non-HAM drivers for this. Please let me know if you have other suggestions for activities for this drill.
At the August meeting we will do a scavenger hunt in the cache to get familiar with the storage layout & make it quicker to pull out supplies at the drill on October 28th.
To find CERT training classes this Fall use the links posted at our CERT website <walnut-creek.org/cert>
We will not run training classes in Walnut Creek this Fall. FEMA expects to provide updated CERT training materials by the end of August & we need time to review and update our basic training materials.
FYI – upcoming CERT events thru the end of 2017:
- postponed – August Light Up the City drill (moved to October 28th drill)
- canceled – Fall CERT Basic training classes (Spring and Fall 2018 classes are planned)
- October 28th – Fall city-wide drill – all 8 CERT areas
- November 18th, Saturday – Disaster Medical Hands On class – continuing education , 0010-1400 hrs. in Diablo Room in the Hillside Club House at Rossmoor. Class is open to all CERTs and to students who have taken the two Med Ops basic training classes. Pre-registration is required. Registration will open Sept. 1 at <walnut-creek.org/cert>.