ACCERT’s mission is to be prepared for our Community through training, awareness so that needed resources can be provided for the greater good and for the citizens most in need.
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ACCERT Volunteers, under the sponsorship of the American Canyon Fire Protection District, strive to work within a network of state and local emergency response teams to provide support for public safety personnel, public service personnel, and elected officials by acting as additional resources when activated during a disaster.
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The primary purpose of ACCERT is to respond as a team to assist their community, local first responders, and potentially private businesses and/or state and federal agencies in a large-scale disaster.
ACCERT is designed to support:
- In a disaster, ACCERT members will provide assistance until first responders arrive;
- Emergency Volunteer Center (EVC) activation and operations
- Priority Prophylaxis Distribution (POD) activation and operations
- Communications via “HAM” radios or runners
- Augment the local emergency services
- Assist with traffic direction and crowd control
- Assist in victim triage and rescue
- Assist with sheltering, mass feeding
- Dissemination of Public Information
- Ancillary support in the safe area outside of a large-scale emergency
- Pre-disaster training and readiness
- Provide communications capability with individual team
Levels of CERT participation
Train and Release
- Have completed the basic CERT class
Train and Maintain
- Have completed the basic CERT class
- Attend minimal training bi-annually
Train and Retain
- Have completed the basic CERT class
- Attend regular meetings and training
- Complete a background check