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Free LAFD Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

FREE LIFE-SAVING TRAINING OPPORTUNITY! NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!LAFD COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) CLASS STARTS MAR 4TH!

Make your family and home even safer while having a fun time doing it.  LAFD’S Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) FREE classes begin next week in Hermon – starting Tuesday, March 4th from 7:00-9:30pm at Fellowship Hall -- so please register now!  Call Mark at 323.895.6275 or e-mail marklegassie@gmail.com   The class is open to anyone over 17 years of age.

Why take CERT training?  It’s like paying your car insurance.  You hope you’ll never need it, but when the occasion arises -- like being CERT trained -- it means you’re as ready as you can be to help yourself and your family.  If you live near Hermon, graduates have the opportunity to become a member of the well-known "Hermon CERT” team and get involved with annual community-twise earthquake and fire drills. If drills are not your thing, you can also volunteer to help maintain our stocked community emergency bin (which Hermon plans to share with other communities in need) or help update and finalize our newly drafted Hermon Community Emergency Plan (HCEP).

It’s important for all of us to know that in a widespread disaster, the LAFD, paramedics, and police WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME.  They’ll be deployed first to major incidents such as collapsed buildings.  And further, our Fire Station 12 may not be able to get to us if the old bridges over the Arroyo collapse.  So we need to be prepared to take care of ourselves and community.

Firefighter Kurt Howard will be teaching this course — he’s one of the best CERT instructors in the city.  Class members receive 17+ hours of fascinating instruction (every Tuesday evening) for 7 weeks.  So, register now . . . .classes will be located at 5800 Monterey Rd in Hermon.  30 residents have signed up so far with room for several more students in the large classroom we have reserved. (Thanks to the Hermon Community Church for providing the space free of charge.) 

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