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Towns of Chaplin & Hampton CERT

Chaplin & Hampton Town Halls
Date last updated: Oct 12, 2012

General Information

Month and year the CERT Program was started: April 2006

Geographic Area: CHAPLIN (Local) (06235)
HAMPTON (Local) (06247)

Point of Contact:
Dagmar Noll
Windham Region Citizen Corps Representative
Windham Region Council of Governments
979 Main Street
Willimantic, CT 06226

(860) 456-2221
citizencorps@wincog.org

CERT Web Site: http://certalert.net/ca/team?teamid=1

Training

On average, this CERT Program conducts the CERT Basic Training Course 0 times a year.

Number of CERT classes that have graduated since the program started: 0

Number of individuals who have completed CERT Basic Training Course since the program started: 16

Local CERT Programs offer training to the general public and/or to particular groups in the community. This CERT Program holds classes for the following groups:
  • General public / Open classes
Language(s) in which the program conducts CERT training:
  • English

Supplemental Training

Supplemental training conducted, recommended, and/or required for CERT members:
  • IS-100.a Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS)
  • IS-200.a ICS for Single Resources
  • IS-700.a National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
  • Amateur radio operation
  • Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Automatic External Defibrillation (AED)
  • Basic first aid
  • Shelter operations/management

Exercises

A total of 2 CERTs have participated in 1 WMD/terrorism exercise for emergency personnel.

A total of 11 CERTs have participated in 2 natural disaster exercises for emergency personnel.

A total of 35 CERTs have participated in 9 CERT-specific exercises.

CERT in Action

Emergencies

Number of times the CERTs have responded in actual emergencies:1

Types of emergencies/disasters to which the CERTs have responded:
  • Pandemic

Activities During Emergencies

Activities conducted by CERTs during past emergencies:
  • Medical intervention (triage or treatment)

Non-Emergency Functions

Non-emergency functions performed by CERT members:
  • Support for emergency planning (neighborhoods, schools, community)

Additional CERT Program Information

The Chaplin-Hampton CERT trains to be a general-purpose team, to be able to handle response to any common emergency needs, including search and rescue, traffic control, triage, HAM and other communications between the location we are deployed to and our EOC, etc.   



We focus on and train for:

- Running Red Cross shelters.

- Running FEMA PODs.

- Handling HAM radio and other communications at our shelters and EOCs.



Basic CERT Training is provided regionally.