Welcome To PVPCERT

SERVING THE CITIES & COMMUNITIES OF:
RANCHO PALOS VERDES
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES
ROLLING HILLS
PALOS VERDES ESTATES
UNINCORPORATED WESTFIELD
UNINCORPORATED ACADEMY HILLS

Palos Verdes Peninsula Community Emergency Response Team

The PVPCERT is a government/community resource that provides basic training in disaster preparedness necessary to help you help your family, your neighborhood, and your community in a disaster. We are a registered California Corporation and have IRS Tax Exempt status as a nonprofit entity under IRS 501 (c) (3).

 

MEETING SCHEDULE

Meetings are held at Hesse Park in Rancho Palos Verdes at 7:00PM on the 4th Thursday of odd numbered months.
Meeting Schedule Theme
January 23, 2020

Evacuate or Shelter in Place

In a wild fire or earthquake does one evacuate or shelter in place? This will be an informal short presentation followed by an open Q&A and is geared mainly towards the inexperienced Peninsula resident who is unprepared, which unfortunately includes many of us. Topics covered will include what it takes to be ready to Evacuate your family as well as what you need to do to be ready to Shelter in Place. Simple steps residents and their families can take today to protect themselves, their family, and their home. With the wind driven wild fires we have seen and the earthquakes we are familiar with, along with the new long term extended power outages, it is important that residents take some simple steps that will help them be ready and protect themselves, their families, and their pets. Click here for the flier

Please come and join us. Bring your family, friends and neighbors. The more people who learn, the better off we all are.

March 2020

TBD

 
May 2020

TBD

 

TRAINING SCHEDULE

The approved CERT Course is a 20 hour course and is provided at no charge to our communities through grants from the Department of Homeland Security, The State of California and LA County. In order to complete CERT Certification students must complete the entire 20 hour course. You may make up missed classes during other CERT Courses anywhere in LA County based on availability. Visit the LA County Fire Department web site at fire.lacounty.gov for more details. We schedule basic CERT training sessions.
 
PVP CERT Training
CERT Basic Training Hesse Park
29301 Hawthorne Blvd
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
C.E.R.T. training is free.
Classes are from 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM (Flyer)

E-mail Cheryl Dawson at cheryldaw@gmail.com
Phone:310 228-7803
Please include name, phone number and email address.

Session I October 5, 2019Disaster Perparedness
Disaster Fire Suppression
Disaster Medical Operations I
Session II October 12, 2019Disaster Medical Operations II
Light Search and Rescue
Disaster Psychology
Session III October 19, 2019 CERT Organization
Terrorism
Review and Simulation
CERT Basic Training The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is an all-risk, all-hazard training. This valuable course is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors and your neighborhood in an emergency situation.

CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens may initially be on their own and their actions can make a difference. While people will respond to others in need without the training, one goal of the CERT program is to help them do so effectively and efficiently without placing themselves in unnecessary danger. In the CERT training, citizens learn to:

  • Manage utilities and put out small fires
  • Treat the three medical killers by opening airways, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock
  • Provide basic medical aid
  • Search for and rescue victims safely
  • Organize themselves and spontaneous volunteers to be effective
  • Collect disaster intelligence to support first responder efforts
ALL CLASSES MUST BE ATTENDED TO RECEIVE A COURSE CERTIFICATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN OTHER GOVERNMENT SPONSORED CERT CLASSES CAN ATTEND ANY OF THE SCHEDULED TRANING MODULES TO COMPLETE THE COURSE.
October 27, 2019
Noon-3:00PM		 Prepared Peninsula Expo Flyer
Norris Pavilion
501 Indian Peak Road
Family friendly (kids in costume), tips for emercency bag and pet, law enforcement and fire department exhibits

PVPCERT training and participation provides essential training and information to enable you to prepare your homes and families to cope during the critical period immediately following a disaster. That is when professional emergency services will be taxed beyond capability. PVPCERT will train you to become part of the solution and to do the most good for the highest number of people as part of a trained, well managed team. The goal of PVPCERT is to:

The Los Angeles County Fire Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff provide training at no cost to the student. Basic training consists of seven comprehensive training sessions which include demonstrations and exercises in such areas as:

HISTORY

The Peninsula Emergency Response Team was developed in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake, demonstrating the further importance of civilian volunteers. As a result, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department, in cooperation with the cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, developed PVPCERT with the intent of giving volunteers a higher level of basic skills in firefighting, search and rescue, disaster medicine, and preparedness.