Clovis CERT

1. Clovis CERT How the Cadre Was Built

2. Citizen Volunteers • Quality vs. Quantity • Meaningful “Stuff to Do” • Capitalizing on Volunteer Interest or innate skills sets • It’s not just about disasters • It is about partnerships

3. CERT • Community Benefits: • Year round support through volunteer programs • Reduces burden on first responder services by promoting mitigation and preparedness measures • Creates well trained, better informed, and better prepared citizens to take care of themselves and others during times of crisis -- allowing first responders to address the most critical needs

4. Fire Extinguisher Training • Farmers Market • Collaboration with Chamber of Commerce. . FREE! • Eight Friday evenings from June – September • Public Information re: CERT and fire extinguisher training for kids

5. Heat Wave Support • Staffed for 5 nights from 5 – 10pm in collaboration with Senior Services Division • Results • Provided relief for 15 people displaced by the extreme heat • Made over 160 phone calls to special needs citizens to ensure they had adequate cooling and were staying hydrated

6. Downtown Electrical Parade 12/03/11 • 12 Members in collaboration with PD • Assignments: Traffic control, parade route crowd control, barricade placement, transport to PD Command Center

7. Sand Bagging • Staffed for two nights in collaboration with Public Utilities • 1/3/08 – 19 members • 1/4/08 – 12 members • 1600 bags created over two nights • Assignments: filling, loading, distribution to residents, traffic control

8. Mass Care/Shelter Trailer • Support for 200 • Blankets, Cots, Care Kits • Supplied consistent with ARC requirements and MOU drafted for deployment out of area by ARC

9. Emergency Assistance Unit • CERT personnel trained in collaboration with ARC • On-Scene Victim Support • Clothing • Child essentials • Hydration • SCBA bottles

10. Emergency Assistance Unit

11. 2008-2009 2010 • StormReady Certification – 1st in the Valley (1/14/08) in collaboration with NWS • 10 CERT members trained as part of certification • Station 1 Opening (1/26/08) • Public Education Booth • Joint MCI Exercise w/ Sacramento CERT (4/19 – 4/20) • 22 Presidential Service Awards for members with 1,000 hours of service • Victims • 12 for an MCI drill October 2007 • 10 for evacuation drill 3/26/08 • CERT graduates come back to design and proctor full-scale exercises at the end of every subsequent CERT class • Total Volunteer Hours = 8,689 • Teen CERT program graduated 42 students at CART • Responded to 4 house fires with EAU support • Graduated 30 basic CERT members • 12 personnel certified in CPR/AED • Provided $200 scholarship to one Teen CERT graduate • Performed 5 training exercises • Rehabilitated arson destroyed playground

12. How/Why does it Work? • Strong Leadership Team comprised of volunteers that hold each other accountable • Disaster Services Supervisor gets out of the way • Sense of Community is already strong in Clovis • COLLABORATION WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS • Be creative • Think about joining forces and blurring boundaries