Spring CERT Class 1
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Week 1: Disaster Preparedness
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Mar 24, 2010 from 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm |
| Where | Issaquah EOC, Public Works Building, 670 1st Ave NE, Issaquah, WA |
| Contact Name | Gerard Hickey |
| Contact Phone | 425-395-4554 |
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In this unit you will learn about:
- Disasters and Disaster Workers: What defines a disaster, what defines an disaster, and who makes up the response workforce.
- The Impact on the Infrastructure: The potential effect of extreme emergencies and disasters on transportation; electrical service; telephone communication; fuel; food, water, and shelter; and emergency services.
- Structural and Nonstructural Hazards: Potentially hazardous conditions in various types of structures and their contents during a disaster.
- Hazard Mitigation: What to do to reduce the risk of damage from hazards that threaten your area.
- Home and Workplace Preparedness: How you can prepare in advance to reduce structural and nonstructural hazards and survive the initial period after a disaster.
- Community Preparedness: How a community can prepare in advance to respond.
- Protection for Disaster Workers: Laws that protect disaster workers from liability.
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