Pleasant Hill CERT is proud to announce the completion of our most recent course. The enthusiastic graduates completed their final exercise on Saturday, February 23, 2025. In teams of three or four, our students must complete a round of field exercises:
Search and Rescue, in which they search a damaged house for injured victims (heroically portrayed by members of Boy Scout Troop 221), perform triage, and provide life-saving first aid when needed.
Communications involves the procedures for reporting (via GMRS/FRS radio) information from the field as part of a search and rescue team, and for receiving information as a radio operator at the command post.
In the Medical tent, students perform intake of injured victims (the aforementioned Boy Scouts, along with a parent or two). They practice performing head-to-toe assessments of patients and basic first aid, such as splinting injuries and dressing wounds. (CERT volunteers do not perform medical procedures or distribute medicine.)
