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Spokane
Public Schools' Student Emergency Response Team (SERT) is based
on the widely endorsed Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
program and the work of a former Ready*Corps VISTA member in
Walla Walla, WA. SERT empowers students with basic hazard
skills and engages students in their school and community.
Students participate in a rodeo (disaster drill) to demonstrate
and practice life-saving skills they have learned.
SERT is taught to these students by
AmeriCorps*VISTA members that have taken Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) training and online training from FEMA.
The SERT course includes the following basics:
- Basic fire suppression
- Disaster medical operations
- Search and rescue
- CERT organization
- How to work and function as
a cohesive team
These skills will allow the
students to be first responders in the event of a small house
fire in their neighborhood, to triage patients to help
professional first responders in the event of a large scale
disaster, and to search a lightly damaged building if called
upon by trained professionals.
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