Community Shield Exercise

from the Belmont City Manager’s Weekly Update (5/13/16):
This week personnel from Belmont Police, as part of the San Mateo County SWAT Counter Terrorism Assault Team, and Belmont Fire Department, in their role as the San Mateo County HazMat Unit, participated in the Community Shield counter terrorism exercise.

Several other County agencies including San Mateo Co. Sheriff, San Mateo Fire, Foster City Fire, EMS and PublicHealth also participated. The full-scale exercise, which was held at the San Mateo County Event Center, dealt with a simulated terrorist incident involving the release of hazardous materials. Volunteers, including members of Belmont Fire Department CERT, acted as role-players, ranging from terrorists to victims who had to be “decontaminated”.

Local civic officials from around San Mateo County, including City Manager Greg Scoles and Council Members Charles Stone and  Davina Hurt, attended as observers.  It was an excellent training exercise and demonstrated the capabilities and skills of our first responders to deal with a WMD type incident.

Red Cross Smoke Alarm Installations

Did you attend the Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness training ???

Menlo Park Fire District and American Red Cross are partnering to install free smoke alarms in North Fair Oaks (Menlo Park) and educate residents about the importance of emergency preparedness and fire safety.  Date of the event is Oct 17, 2015.  More details on the Redwood City CERT Activities Page.

Urban Shield 2015 Is This Weekend

Urban Shield 2015 is this coming weekend and I’m signed up for a second year.Interested persons who wish to serve as assistant safety officers, site captains, assistant site captains as well as proctors (subject matter experts) to help with team assessments as they work through the scenarios or role players on Saturday, September 12th or Sunday, September 13th from 0700 to 2230 hours.

Urban Shield Red Command in San Jose is looking for support staff and victims.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-shield-cert-volunteer-opportunity-tickets-18143937004

Volunteers may choose to work any number of one or two shifts on either or both days of the event, Saturday and Sunday September 12 and 13.

Hours are approximately 7:00am to 2:30pm, 2:30pm to 9:30pm. Exact times may vary depending at the discretion of the branch leadership.

50 CERTs per shift are needed for sign-in, situation status (sit-stat), resource status (res-stat). Following check-in, these CERTs will then be deployed to 1 of 10 field stations.

Northern California Regional CERT Conference

The Northern California Regional Conference is an opportunity for CERT program managers and instructors to meet, share ideas and best practices, and learn how to enhance their CERT program.

The California CERT Advisory Workgroup is a body of CERT Subject Matter Experts from CERT programs in California. These subject matter experts help advise CaliforniaVolunteers on how to best support CERT programs in California.

CaliforniaVolunteers is the State Administrator for the CERT program in the State of California. CaliforniaVolunteers supports CERT programs.

Here is a informational flyer for the conference.
Register for the conference here.

2015 Disaster Preparedness Day

Another year, another fair, another successful Disaster Preparedness Day!  From what I’ve heard, the Belmont CERT beanbag toss/preparedness quiz attraction was a complete success.  It was great to see such a good volunteer turnout for both Belmont and Redwood City/San Carlos CERT teams.

Photos have been posted to our CERT Photo Album.

American Red Cross Shelter Operations Training

The purpose of this free class is to prepare you with the essential information needed to open an operate a community shelter.  Class flyer.

Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Time: choice of 8:00-12:00 or 1:00-5:00 sessions
Where: Canada College, Building 3, Room 142
Cost: FREE

Register by Friday, June 5, 2015.  Contact Tom Maloney (maloneyt@smccd.edu ) to register

Save The Date- Disaster Preparedness Day

Don’t forget to sign up with Capt Halleran or Christy Adonis for booth duty!

Redwood City/San Carlos CERT- RSVP Now For Silver Dragon

Date: April 23, 2015
Incident Name: Silver Dragon
Time: 7:30am to 1:30pm

Redwood City/San Carlos CERT members have again been invited to participate in the San Mateo County Public Health Silver Dragon Exercise.  The purpose of this public health exercise is to enhance public health reediness, preparedness and response to a biological threat.  Utilization of CERT members to assist first responders in all aspects of response, allowing CERT members to apply skills, such as setting up an ICP, communications, team building, documentation, team coordination and accountability.

Send your RSVP today, click this link mailto:cadonis@redwoodcity.org?subject=Silver%20Dragon%20RSVP

Volunteer Victims Needed for Oracle Disaster Drill

Next Tuesday, April 14th, Oracle will be holding a disaster drill for its employees and First-In, the company coordinating the drill, is looking for volunteers to be moulaged “victims”.  If you are interested, see the flyer.

You will be provided breakfast and a safety briefing then receive your moulage “injuries”.  After the drill is completed will have a lunch and a debriefing where you will be given time to discuss how you were cared for during the drill. Contact Michele Richards at First-In Emergency Response Training (First_in@comcast.net) to sign up to participate.

·         Oracle Disaster Drill
·         Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
·         Location:  Oracle Headquarters, Redwood City
·         Time:  7:00am – 2:00pm

If you participate in this drill, please let Capt Halleran (path@belmont.gov) know so he can log your time.

Foster City CERT Needs Volunteer “Victims”

Volunteer “victims” needed for Saturday, March 21, 2015!
“Victims” play an integral role in their drill on March 21st in that their CERT students take everything they have learned, and apply the skills they have just acquired.

“Victims” will have make-up applied and will act out various scenarios one would encounter in a disaster, such as an earthquake.  “Moulage” as it is commonly referred to, is the “make-up” applied to a person to simulate injuries sustained during a disaster.

The drill is held at the Foster City Fire Department. Foster City Fire Department personnel and former CERT students will be on hand to help insure the day is a success.

Other details:
·         If you are under 18 years old, you must have a signed consent form
·         There are two shifts available. You may volunteer for one or both shifts. Ideally we would love to have you work both shifts! Please note, there are limited slots for each shift, first come first served.
·         A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided!
·         No previous acting experience needed! If you have a friend or relative who would like to participate they are welcome as well!
·         Morning Shift – You need to arrive at 7:15 AM
·         Afternoon Shift – You need to arrive at 11:00 AM
·         Wear comfortable clothes! While the make-up we use is washable, we do not want you wearing your “Sunday best”. Additionally, we often have clean, used t-shirts for you to wear.
·         Advance registration is required!

To register or for further questions, please call or email:
Jan Brown, Foster City CERT, Moulage Coordinator
650-245-8435
click the link below to rsvp:
mailto:jbrown2864@comcast.net?subject=Moulage%20assistance%20by%20RWC%2FSC