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CERT Basic Training�Phase 2�Spring 2022

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Welcome!

  • This evening’s schedule
  • A few Zoom rules…
  • Introductions-Instructors and Class
    • Name & home area
    • Occupation or interesting fact
    • Why taking CERT Basic?
  • Questions?

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Welcome!

  • This evening’s schedule
  • Classroom info
    • Sign-in, COVID, bathrooms, in case of emergency.
  • Introductions-Instructors and Class
    • Name & home area
    • Occupation or interesting fact
    • Why taking CERT Basic?
  • Questions?

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Activity time

The Zoombie Apocalypse

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Do you have these?

  • Fishing rod
  • Colander
  • Hair drier
  • Manual can opener
  • Knitting needles
  • Something that squirts water

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  • Can of Beans
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Perfume/aftershave
  • Wrist watch
  • Something for baking bread
  • A pen

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Your favorite mask (mandatory)

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Activity

  • Work in groups of five to design and construct a free-standing tower that stands at least 5-feet tall from the bottom of the structure to the top
  • You will have 12 minutes. Spend the first 5 minutes planning and designing the tower as a group. While planning, you should not touch any of the materials
  • Wait to be told when to begin construction. You will have 7 minutes from that point to complete the tower

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As CERTs we may

  • Work with unfamiliar people
  • On unusual problems
  • With adapted tools and surroundings
  • Under time pressures

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What skills helped?

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Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness &�Unit 2: - CERT Organization & ICS

CERT Basic Training

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Disneyland of Disasters - Central

myhazards.caloes.ca.gov accessed 5/8/2020

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Disneyland of Disasters - Mountains

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Disneyland of Disasters - South

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Evacuate discussion

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  • CZU Fire
  • What did you do?
  • What would you change?
  • Grab ‘n Go bags
  • CERT PPE – limitations of each

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Family Supply Kit

  • Be sure to include medicines
  • Load flash drive with important information, or on cloud
  • Emergency radio & phone charger
  • Pet food and a carrier/leash
  • Flashlight & matches
  • Cash

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Key stations:

*KSCO 1080 AM

KION 1460 AM

KPIG 107.5 FM

KBCZ 89.3 FM

Spanish

KTGE - AM 1570 (Salinas)�KZSF - AM 1370 (San Jose)

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Alerts

Code RED

  • Register your cell phone or VOIP www.scr911.org to receive notification.
  • Emergency situations or critical community alerts based on geographic area

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Community Connect ScottsValleyFire.com

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NIXLE

Register to receive alerts from Central Fire Protection District, SVPD, Watsonville PD

nixle.com

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Alert Apps

PulsePoint.org

Phone app

Choose local agencies

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Santa Cruz County

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www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/OR3.aspx

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Volunteer Protection Laws

  • California Good Samaritan law
  • Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 (Good Samaritan)
  • California Disaster Service Workers (DSW)
  • CalEMA Liability Registry (2007)
  • Personal insurance

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Incident Command System

PM 2-3

CERT Basic Training Unit 2: CERT Organization

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Break

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RETURN

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Units 3 & 4: Disaster Medical Operations

CERT Basic Training

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Assumptions

Need for CERT members to learn disaster medical operations is based on two assumptions:

    • Number of survivors could exceed local capacity for treatment
    • Survivors will assist others
      • They will do whatever they know how to do
      • They need to know lifesaving first aid or post-disaster survival techniques

CERT Basic Training Unit 3: Disaster Medical Operations – Part 1

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What is CERT’s role in a mass casualty incident?

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What is Triage?

  • Process for managing mass casualty event
    • Evaluate the survivors
    • Patients are sorted by severity of injury
    • Patients are prioritized for immediate or delayed treatment

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Triage Evaluation = RPM�

  1. Check Airway:

Respiration

>30 bpm or no breathing

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  1. Check Circulation:

Perfusion Blanch Test

>2 seconds (Pulse Adult <30 >100, Children <80 >180)

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  • Check Mental Status:

Mental Status

-- Unconscious

-- Can’t follow simple commands

“30 2 CAN DO”

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Triage

  • Immediate (I): Victim has life-threatening injuries (airway, bleeding, or shock)
  • Delayed (D): Injuries do not jeopardize victim’s life; treatment can be delayed (fractures, burns
  • Minor (M): Walking wounded and generally ambulatory (cuts, abrasions)
  • Dead (DEAD): No CPR: If breathing cannot be restored on the second try to open the airway, CERT members must move on to the next survivor

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Triage Evaluation = RPM�

  1. Check Airway:

-- Respiration >30 bpm = IMMEDIATE

  1. Check Circulation
    • Perfusion: Blanch Test

>2 seconds = IMMEDIATE

  • Check Mental Status

-- Unconscious = IMMEDIATE

-- Can’t follow simple commands = IMMEDIATE

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Triage Pitfalls

  • No team plan, organization, or goal
  • Indecisive leadership
  • Too much focus on one injury
  • Treatment (rather than triage)

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  • SURVIVOR #1 
  • Open (compound) Fracture, Right Forearm
  • Breathing once every 3 seconds
  • Color returns to finger tips in less than 2 seconds.
  • Responds to verbal commands 

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  • SURVIVOR #2 
  • Large piece of wood in left thigh 
  • Breathing once every 3 seconds 
  • Color returns to finger tips in less than 2 seconds 
  • Alert

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  • SURVIVOR #3 
  • Left ankle swollen and deformed 
  • Breathing once every 4 seconds
  • Knows name, date, and what happened 
  • Color returns to finger tips in 2 seconds

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  • SURVIVOR #4
  • Both legs deformed
  • Breathing once every second
  • Not responsive to questions
  • Color returns to finger tips in 3 seconds 

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  • SURVIVOR #5 
  • No visible injury, blank stare 
  • Cannot feel air movement
  • Color does not return to finger tips 

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  • SURVIVOR #6 
  • Severe bleeding from head wound 
  • Breathing once every 2 seconds
  • Not responsive to questions
  • Color returns to finger tips in 4 seconds 

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  • SURVIVOR #7 
  • Large piece of wood in left thigh 
  • Breathing once every 2 seconds
  • Alert and responsive
  • Color returns to finger tips in 3 seconds 

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  • SURVIVOR #8 
  • Both feet crushed by concrete block 
  • Breathing once every 3 seconds
  • Knows name, date, and what happened 
  • Color returns to finger tips in 1 second 

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  • SURVIVOR # 9 
  • Back injury, unable to move
  • Breathing once every 4 seconds
  • Knows name, date, and what happened 
  • Color returns to finger tips in 2 seconds 

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  • SURVIVOR #10 
  • Right arm is deformed
  • Alert
  • Color returns to finger tips in 1 second 
  • Breathing once every 5 seconds 

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Establish a Medical Treatment Area

  • Select site and set up treatment area as soon as injured survivors are confirmed
  • When determining best location(s) for treatment area, consider:
    • Safety of rescuers and survivors
    • Ease of access to resources

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Medical Treatment Areas

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Medical Treatment Areas

CERT Basic Training Unit 4: Disaster Medical Operations – Part 2

  • The site selected should be:
    • In a safe area, free of hazards and debris
    • Upwind, uphill, and upstream (if possible) from hazard zone(s)
    • Accessible by transportation vehicles
    • Expandable

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Public Health Considerations

  • Maintaining proper hygiene
  • Maintaining proper sanitation
  • Purifying water for drinking AND

for sterilizing (if necessary)

  • Preventing spread of disease

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Treating Burns

  • Goals?

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Burn Classifications

  • Superficial: epidermis
  • Partial Thickness: dermis and epidermis
  • Full Thickness: subcutaneous layer and all layers above

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Treatment for Chemical Burns

  • Remove cause of burn and affected clothing or jewelry
  • If irritant is dry, gently brush away as much as possible
    • Always brush away from eyes, survivor, and yourself
  • Flush with lots of cool running water
  • Apply cool, wet compress to relieve pain
  • Cover wound loosely with dry, sterile or clean dressing

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Cold-Related Injuries

  • Hypothermia:
    • Occurs when body’s temperature drops below normal
  • Frostbite:
    • Occurs when extreme cold shuts down blood flow to extremities, causing tissue death

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Heat-Related Injuries

  • Heat cramps
    • Muscle spasms brought on by over-exertion in extreme heat
  • Heat exhaustion
    • Occurs when exercising or working in extreme heat results in loss of body fluids
  • Heat stroke
    • Survivor’s temperature control system shuts down
    • Body temperature rises so high that brain damage and death may result

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Break

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RETURN

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CERT Basic Training

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Unit 5: Disaster Psychology

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Self Care Toolkit

  • Disasters can elicit a emotional response
    • Stress
    • Fear
    • Anxiety
  • Goal of this exercise
    • Recognize there are self-care tools
      • Probably uses these in this pandemic
    • To have the skills to help yourself and other to cope with stress
  • Would anyone like to share their responses

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Expectations?

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  • Living conditions will be different
  • Normal routines will be uprooted

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How Stress is Handled – the Lizard Brain

  • Freeze: “Stop, look, and listen,” or be on guard and watchful
  • Flight: Flee
  • Fight: Attempt to combat the

threat

  • Fright: Toxic immobility when

in contact with a predator,

or playing dead

  • Faint: Fear-induced fainting

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Exercise

Your attempting to rescue a victim from a trapped area and the victim becomes hysterical

An adult has seen some traumatic things and is acting withdrawn and unresponsive and expresses feeling stunned/numb/ overwhelmed, and feeling helpless, and expressing self blame.

Victim seems to repeat the same thing over and over.

A child in the medical treatment area died and you are about to tell the parent.

The parent doesn’t know until you tell them because the parent has been involved in helping other victims.

A CERT member doesn’t want to stop helping but is acting very forgetful and can’t seem to concentrate, and is feeling fatigued and low energy and has no appetite.

1. Hysterical

2. Unresponsive

3. Death

4. Team mate

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Terrorism and CERT

CERT Basic Training Unit 8

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Unit 8 Objectives

  • Define terrorism
  • Identify potential targets in our community
  • Identify eight (8) signs of terrorist planning
  • Identify CERT operating procedures for a terrorist incident
  • Describe actions to take following a suspected terrorist incident

PM 8-1

CERT Basic Training Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT

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If You See Potential Indicators

  • If you see something, say something!
  • Understand the signs of terrorist activity
  • Contact local law enforcement 911
  • Use the FBI Suspicious Activity Reporting Tip Line

PM 8-5

CERT Basic Training Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT

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NCRIC.ORG

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CERT in Santa Cruz County

You are almost there!

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Congratulations!