City of Ashland, Oregon / Fire / CERT
Community Emergency Response Team-Ashland, Oregon
CERT Basic Training April 23, 24, 30, May 1, 2010
CERT General Meeting
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
Where: Ashland Fire Station No. 1 at 455 Siskiyou Blvd.
Free~Public Always Welcome~Refreshments Served
Topic: Building Resilient Community
Continuing our theme of Building Resilient Community, author, columnist and former radio host of JPR's Jefferson Exchange, Jeff Golden will present his thoughts and vision on the topic of community building. Creator of Ashland's Abundance Swap, Jeff travels around the country talking to groups interested in creating meaningful and connected community that can survive the hard times and make the good times richer.
Winter shelters Sunday nights hosted by local churches: Guests must arrive by 9 PM. At Ashland 1st Presbyterian, Calvin Hall, Corner Siskiyou Blvd at Walker Avenue through December, January and February. Other shelter nights during extreme cold may be announced here.
Leadership~Service~Community  What is CERT? Ashland CERT's Mission: Our mission is to prepare citizens to respond effectively in disaster. CERT trains residents to prepare their families and neighborhoods to mitigate, respond to and recover from disaster. Our goal is to strengthen our community and make it more resilient neighborhood by neighborhood.
Ashland CERT Graduation November 2009
Emergency shelter is provided at Ashland's Presbyterian Church on the corner of Walker Avenue and Siskiyou Blvd when temperature dip to 20° or below.
If a church is not available, the City of Ashland may call CERT to host an Emergency Shelter in a city facility when weather conditions are deemed to be life threatening for those without shelter. See the City of Ashland's Emergency Shelter Resolution
Sunday winter shelters at Ashland First Presbyterian Church
CERT emergency shelter at Pioneer Hall
CERT volunteers evacuate Ashland neighborhood during Siskiyou Fire 9/21/09
CERT Training
CERT members are citizens who have completed the 24-hour CERT training curriculum in emergency preparedness and disaster response.
Our course is taught over two weekends by Ashland Firefighter Paramedics and includes instruction in fire suppression, disaster medical operations, light search and rescue, disaster psychology, emergency extrication and organization of CERT within the Incident Command System. We offer two Basic Training sessions per year, in Fall and Spring.
Encouraging Preparedness
After Basic Training, CERT members may begin advanced leadership training and participate in neighborhood preparedness through community building using a powerful 9-Step Guide called Map Your Neighborhood. Many CERT members also respond to community emergencies and are trained to staff emergency shelters, assist Ashland Public Works in making sandbags during flooding, help evacuate citizens during floods or wildfires, or do other tasks as assigned.
MAP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Our focus for Neighborhood Preparedness
Strong neighborhoods can save lives in the Golden Hour, the first 60 minutes following disaster.
CERT: We are NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
In a large-scale community or regional disaster, the most likely first responder will be a neighbor. We are your trained and prepared neighbors, ready to assist our community in a safe and organized way.
During the summer, volunteers walk upper Ashland neighborhoods, as part of CERT's continuing preparation to know Ashland's wildland-urban interface (WUI). We practice radio communications while getting to know the area's wildfire evacuation routes. CERT was called to evacuate an Ashland neighborhood during the Siskiyou Fire, 9/21/2009.
The Incident Command System is part of CERT training and practice
CERT Radio Communications
A mountainous region, the State of Jefferson (So. Oregon and Northern California) is linked for emergency communications by a series of mountaintop repeaters maintained by the Oregon Connection. Volunteer amateur radio operators train and practice the system constantly to be ready to assist during a regional disaster. In addition to Oregon Connection, JCARES, Jackson County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, also trains and practices emergency radio communications in Southern Oregon.
Listen to podcast of JPR interview with Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives Disaster and Why, and Ashland CERT
The CERT office is at Ashland Fire and Rescue, 455 Siskiyou Blvd.
(541) 552-2226 and cert@ashland.or.us
Basic Training
Annual Report See CERT 2006 Report
See CERT Visioning Document 2006
 
CERT remembers KC Mosby (1971-2009)
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