Rotary Learns About Community Emergency Response Team
By Anonymous — Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Pictured is Renee Swenson, President-Elect with Rotary speaker Steven Lazenby from CERT the Community Emergency Response Team. He related how firefighters go around the world to help during earthquakes etc., and see untrained teams of people trying to help. This was the inspiration to begin a training program. Steven talked about the classes and what is taught: general emergency readiness and response, fire safety, medical triage and treatment bandaging and splinting, search and rescue, team management and more. The class members will be ready to respond in an emergency in their neighborhood and the community. His quote was, “Do the most good, for the most people you can.” In other words, you may not be able to help everyone, but do what you can. Courtesy Martha Richardson. |