We will be hosting a Shelter Fundamentals Course, which is taught by the American Red Cross (description below) on Tuesday, April 25^th, at 6:00 pm.  The training will take place at Guttenberg Town Hall.

Shelter Fundamentals is a basic level course that introduces the guidelines and procedures for setting up, running and closing a shelter during a disaster. Referencing shelter checklists, participants will work on a case study that takes them through four of the six phases of the Sheltering Cycle: Opening, Organizing, Operating and Closing.

This is a necessary training for our team, as it will teach you everything you need to know to work in a shelter, should our town activate one.  For those interested in taking the Shelter Management class, you will need to take this as a prerequisite.

Please let me know if you would like to attend, so I can add you to the list of registrants.  Please note that I will be emailing all registrants a one page form the American Red Cross requires completed as well.

To register, please email Kevin.Wu@GuttenbergCERT.org

Guttenberg CERT is recruiting for our 5/13 & 5/20 Training Class!

The classes are taught over two full days, on Saturdays, on May 13th & May 20th, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

You will learn First Aid, Light Search & Rescue, Light Disaster Psychology, and other skills necessary during a disaster.

Most of all, you will make new friends in the community, other like-minded people with a desire to volunteer and help others!

Everyone is welcome to join, whether you live in Guttenberg, North Bergen,  or West New York.

For more information, please visit our website at www.GuttenbergCERT.org

Please contact Recruitment@GuttenbergCERT.org for more details, to join, or sign up for our training classes.

Please join us April 19th, Wednesday, at 6:30 pm for the Guttenberg CERT General Meeting at Guttenberg Town Hall.

All members are asked to attend, as well as anyone interested in CERT and want to find more information about the program.

In addition, we will be updating you on a number of items, issues, dates, and information about Guttenberg CERT, including the upcoming Spring CERT Training Course in May.

We’ll also be discussing about Traffic Control & Crowd Control Management as our discussion topic, and teaching everyone on how to do both.

We will be conducting a training and refresher courses for both new members and current members (who want to refresh their training).

Please note that you need to complete all modules to attain certification.  If you are unable to attend any modules, please let Kevin know.

If you would like to join and attend the class, please email Recruitment@GuttenbergCERT.org

Class Schedule:

• Wednesday, 11/09/16, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Modules 1 & 2, Disaster Preparedness & Fire Safety
• Wednesday, 11/16/16, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Modules 3 & 4, Disaster Medical Operations Parts 1 & 2, & CPR Training
  Wednesday, 11/30/16, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Modules 3 & 4 Continued Disaster Medical Operations Parts 1 & 2
• Wednesday, 12/07/16, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Module 5 & 6, Light Search and Rescue & CERT Organization
• Wednesday, 12/14/16, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Modules 7 & 8, Disaster Psychology & Terrorism and CERT
• Saturday, 12/17/16, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm – Training Exercises

 
(Photos Courtesy of Police Investigator Joseph Keselica)

Guttenberg C.E.R.T. was honored at a recent Guttenberg Town Council meeting on April 27, 2015.  Read below to see the article in the North Bergen Reporter, a publication of the Hudson Reporter.

Emergency response volunteers honored

(Photo Source:  Hudson Reporter)

Also honored at the meeting were eight volunteer members of the town’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).

“If we’re faced with a major emergency in town – a Sandy incident, a major blackout, a major fire, anything like that – the personnel resources in town, the police, the town staff, are going to be overwhelmed,” said Mayor Gerald Drasheff. “These volunteers are the people who we’ll be calling on to help us out with that. They’ve gotten some basic training in emergency response. For instance if we had to open a shelter in the school because of a major fire, these are the people we would be calling on and relying on to help us to do that.”

Police Investigator Joseph Keselica, who trained the eight individuals, added, “These are a group of citizens that stepped forward and really want to make a difference in the town they live in. They want to better the town.”

The eight CERT residents are Richard Delafuenze, Benjamin Jimenez, Melissa Lazo, Delores Loppe, Juana Malave, Marisol Montanez, Sandra Salazar, and Friederick A. Vialet. The group elected Montanez as incident commander and Salazar as alternate incident commander.

Read more at Hudson Reporter

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