Please join me in a CERT Class for NELA
(Community Emergency Response Team)

What? CERT Classes in NELA at the Glassell Park Senior Center

Disaster Preparedness/ Community Emergency Response Team

How Much? Free!!!

When? Date? TBD (need a total of 20 participants to set up class)

Where? Classes will be offered on a weekday from 6 to 9 PM, once a week for about 7 weeks at the Glassell Park Senior Center.

Interested? Please call Tony Valle at 323 / 627 3587 or email: rep2tango@yahoo.com

Please get the word out and let your friends and neighbors know as well. You and your community will be safer in the event of an emergency having some residents who are trained to respond following a natural disaster (fire, flood, earthquake or other event).

The Los Angeles Fire Department's CERT Program (free of charge) was developed because of the need for a well-trained civilian emergency work force. The CERT Program provides for community self-sufficiency through the development of multifunctional response teams who act as an adjunct to the city's emergency services during major disasters. When emergencies happen, CERT members can give critical support to first responders, and provide immediate assistance to victims. CERT members can also assist with non-emergency projects that help improve the safety of the community. Through this unique program, people from community organizations, business and industry, and city employee groups will become CERT members. They work as team members and perform as individual leaders by directing untrained volunteers in the initial phase of an emergency.To become a CERT graduate, you must complete the 17½ hour course (Level 1). Level 1 training is taught by professional experienced firefighters and paramedics.

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Tony,

Let me know if you need any assistance, also if you can find or have enough people, I would like to get two classes started,one in English,the other in Spanish,  you may post this so that I can request the instructors,

Thanks,

Maria Riley
BN 2 Coordinator
angelmio77@yahoo.com