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April 3, 2008
Shelley Szafraniec
Community Information Specialist

COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING
ENDS WITH EXERCISE APRIL 5

Several citizens from northwest Volusia County will be completing their Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) Saturday, April 5, as they participate in a disaster scenario at the Pierson Community Center, 124 W. Washington Ave., Pierson. From 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., nine trainees will put their newly acquired skills to the test in a mock disaster in and around the center. Local volunteers will pose as victims as part of the exercise.

This team is only the second Spanish-speaking team in the northwest area of Volusia County to be trained. Emergency Management officials hope to continue to offer the training in Spanish in this area and more citizens will volunteer to be trained.

“CERT training provides these volunteers with basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, primary search and rescue, and first aid,” said Charlie Craig, Volusia County Emergency Management Director. “It will enable them not only to be better prepared as individuals, but also to assist their families and others in their neighborhood and workplaces following a disaster.”

For more information about disaster preparedness, please contact Volusia County Emergency Management at (386) 254-1500 or visit http://www.volusia.org/emergency.

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