Local Emergency Response Planning Assignment 2022

Running Head: LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING
Local Emergency Response Planning
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Name of the University
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PART 1-
Address the following questions and include them in the Key Assignment Final Draft.
What is the importance of the development, creation and training of community emergency
response teams (CERTs) in a local community? Explain.
The development, creation and training of the CERT teams are required to execute
the following tasks-
 Disaster preparedness- The team needs to identify the local disaster threats, mitigation
and the preparedness concepts along with the disaster impacts with an overview of
Citizen corps. They are also required to know the team-building concepts and the
shutting off utilities.
 In order to provide the fire safety, the team should learn about the migration
practices, fire chemistry, identification of hazardous materials, the suppression
options. The skills they must be pro at are the use of fire extinguisher for suppressing
The gears which are basic protectors and flames that are live.
 The medical operations knowledge is required to treat the life –threatening conditions
in a particular disaster setting. The practicing on bleeding control techniques and
triage performing is also required.
 Light search and rescue operations need the knowledge of structural damage, the
rescue techniques and cribbing.
 In order to understand the disaster psychology requires the knowledge to deal with
the victim trauma and the responder well-being.
 The team also need to be aware of the ways through which the terrorists might
choose targets having identified the chemical, radiological, biological, explosives or
nuclear weapons. It is the knowledge of responding to the terrorist attacks.
How would you facilitate CERT volunteer participation from members of the local communit
y? Explain.
The CERT teams and their training build life-saving competencies along with the
emphasis on decision making skills, doing greatest good and rescue the people suffering from
the disaster. The issue is related to have enough citizens trained to deal with life-threatening
emergencies at the time of disasters in the communities. CERT is formed with people who
want better preparation to deal with the hazards which threaten the communities. The

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facilitation needs the partnership between both the local government agencies and the
community members. The facilitation will start by assessing the community needs,
identifying the resources, gaining support and recruiting participants, acquiring the training
materials, establishing a training cadre and delivering the training and plan for the program
maintenance.
 The assessment of the community needs will be started with performing the
community disaster preparedness assessment. Specific goals will be set to receive an
effective response.
 The next step will be to identify the resources and determine how much the training
program will cost. The supplemental training and the team maintenance activities
will be arranged and facilitated.
 After this, the support of the local stakeholders will be asked for their support through
developing an overall approach and plan documentation. The project’s worth will be
communicated to easily gain the community support. The potential participants will
be recruited who would be the ideal candidates for CERT.
Why might members of the community be apprehensive about joining a local CERT team? E
xplain.
The team which is responsible for saving the citizen corps are promoted under the
team that is responsible for community emergencies in United states.It is an organization of
the volunteer emergency workers receiving specific training in the basic disaster response
skills who also agree to supplement the existing emergency responders in the case of a major
disaster in the local community. The CERT concept is quite different from the civil defence
as it also includes the non-military activities and coordinates with the system of command
which starts from the national level and ends to the state level. These are known to fall under
the company emergency authorities. Various types of departments such as the emergency
management department, police department, department of fire serves and sponsors the
CERT along with jurisdiction
The sponsoring agency deploys, trains and supervises the training of the CERT
members. The primary duty of CERT is to respond to the disasters but when it is not
responding to any, CERT can do the following; It can raise the funds for the emergency
response equipments in a particular community. It can provide first –aid, services like crowd
control at the community events. It can further hold planning, recruitment meetings, training