Quincy To Offer Community Emergency Response Training

QUINCY, MA — Quincy is looking for volunteers who want to learn how to help their neighbors in the case of an emergency. Quincy Emergency Management, along with the Quincy Police Department and Brewster Ambulance, will hold a Community Emergency Response Team training course March 11 to April 29.

The eight-week course teaches volunteers how to assist in emergency activities such as setting up and running evacuation shelters and assisting public safety during disaster situations. Participants will receive training in disaster preparedness, basic sheltering, light search and rescue, medical operations and fire safety.

If a disastrous event overwhelms or delays a community's professional response capabilities, CERT members can assist themselves, their families and others, by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned during training. Following a disaster, these skills can help save and sustain lives until help arrives. CERT skills also apply to smaller scale daily emergencies.

Course registration is ongoing and Quincy residents will have top priority. For more information, contact Quincy Emergency Management at 617-376-1105 or go here.