Hello Northgate CERTs.
Please join us next week on Wednesday evening October 3 @ 7PM at the Mormon Church on Northgate Rd.
At the meeting we will review our participation in the Sept. 15th Light Up The City drill while we fill the SAR team bags with new supplies that Beth Smith, Logistics Chief, has procured. Please come help us!
Field Team supplies bags and personal backpack supplies are posted here –
- Field Team Bags: START, Medical Resupply, & Equipment
- Personal CERT backpack
Upcoming CERT classes and events for 2018 & 2019:
- WCPD Active Shooter Drill with CERT volunteers as victims – September 26, 10PM – 2AM
- Fall 2018 CERT Basic Training classes CANCELLED due to lack of signups
- Fall 2018 CERT graduation drill CANCELLED
- Amateur (HAM) radio license test cram, Saturday November 10th.
- Amateur (HAM) radio Getting-On-The-Air classes 1 & 2 – November 14 & December 19, 6:30PM – 9PM.
- Disaster Medical Hands On class – continuing education – November 17th, Saturday
- Spring 2019 CERT Basic Training classes on Friday & Saturdays – April 12, 13, 27 – TENTATIVE DATES
- Spring 2019 CERT graduation drill, Saturday May 11 – TENTATIVE DATE
Minutes for Sept. monthly meeting are provided by Patricia Goglia:
Format of meeting was Chair’s presentation, city news then general info and questions.
Peggy Gipps chaired the meeting. She presented the Information Handling in CERT Command Post in preparation for the Sept 15 2018 City-Wide Drill. We set up stations for Communications, Operations, Plans, Logistics and Incident Command. We practiced handling the information using the forms. Detailed minutes on the use of the Forms will be written up for the group.
We discussed the upcoming Community Service Day on Saturday October 13, 2018 9 am – 12 noon (3 hours). The Emergency Planning Outreach to Care Facilities Project will use volunteers to distribute information to the care facilities in each CERT area. In the Northgate CERT area there are 3 neighborhoods in which the Care Facilities are located: Rancho San Miguel, Foot Hills and Citrus. We have mapped out the route for volunteers. Please sign up on the Community Service Day web page for this project.
Patricia has kindly offered to provide minutes for all our meetings – Thank You! Patricia is an experienced Plans Chief formerly of Heather Farm CERT area. She is a welcome addition to cover Plans when Ian McGowan cannot make it to a drill.