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Have you ever heard of a high school

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offering a disaster preparedness training class,
a CERT class, a disaster response class.

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This high school in California is actually
doing it, and I wanted to

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tell you about it today. This
comes to us from OCDE newsroom, which

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is Orange County and beyond Orange County
and Beyond Orange County, California. Troy

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High School students prepared to aid their
community with disaster response. So this is

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a really cool story. I thought
i'd share it with you guys, because

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when I was in high school a
while back, a couple of years ago,

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it was more than that. But
you know, I'm going to say

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a couple of years ago, when
I was in high school, they didn't

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offer anything like this. Now CERT, they're going to talk about CERT in

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this article. Community Emergency Response team, and we have CERT teams in various

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cities around the area where I live, But that thing didn't exist back then.

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This is a fairly new effort,
and I think CERT is great.

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If you have CERT in your area, in your neighborhood and your city,

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your county. Put a comic blow. I'd love to hear how active it

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is and if if you use Ham
radio. Some sart uses Ham radio,

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some sort uses gmrs or FRS radios. Of course GMRS you have to be

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licensed just like Ham radio. But
I wonder what type of radio comms your

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SERT team or your SERT group uses. Safely navigating fires, responding to hazardous

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materials, and assisting light search and
rescue operations are just a few notch as

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Troy High School students have added to
their emergency preparedness tool belt during a recent

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training with Fullerton Fire and Police departments. Okay, so the fire and police

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department is involved, so this is
already really cool. From January third to

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January fifth of this year, thirty
seven members from Troy Preparedness Club gathered at

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the Fulleton Public Library to hear the
local experts like Fulleton Emergency Manager Christy Hofsted

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or Battiste alongside Fullerton Fire Chief Adam
Loser and police Chief John Ratus on a

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wide range of tactics when responding to
an emergency. After experiencing potential fire disaster

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in his family home as a child, tenth grader Alan Cy HSI, e

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H, I don't know how to
say that. SI. I'm gonna say

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SI. Started attending a SERT Community
Emergency Response Team And if we click here,

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it takes us to it just a
FEMA and it defines what SERT is.

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But okay, all right, that's
cool. Most if you don't know

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what SIRT is, quit a comment
blow. Maybe I'll do a separate video.

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If enough people don't know what SERT
is, put a comic blow,

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maybe I'll do a video on that. Trainings for Youth became inspired to make

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preparedness more accessible to his classmates.
With the support of Troy's Nationaltional Junior ROTC

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instructor Commander William Lapour, Allen created
a Troy Preparedness Club and reached out to

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local first responders to initiate a training
exclusively for Troy High School students. Okay,

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so this is cool. So this
is at the direction of a student.

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This is not something that the fire
and Police department came up with,

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not something that the school itself initiated. But this was initiated by a student,

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and apparently everyone's jumped on board with
it so far. So I'd like

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to know. I'd be curious to
see how far it's going to go.

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I'm not gonna read this whole article
to you, but I will link it

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in the description below. So the
three day workshop adapted a CERT training for

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young learners by incorporating a group activities
like video projects and amateur radio modules.

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Here we Go. Amateur radio experts
within each division presented on topics including disaster

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psychology, medical operations, and team
organization. The National CERT program offers a

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consistent approach for training, organizing volunteers, and best support professional responders during disaster

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situations, according to the According to
FEMA, students learn about proper fire safety

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and utilities through hands on simultaneous siltations
led by Battalion Chief Ismail Maturino and Fullerton's

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Station three fire crew, while other
local experts showed students the basics of first

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aid training. Our mission is to
train students, equip them with the necessary

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knowledge and skills so that in case
of disaster, they are not a victim

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but a survivor. Alan said,
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Go check that out and thank you LDG

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for supporting this video. So the
article goes on to talk about a few

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other things, and it kind of
closes with thank you to our student Alan

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Sy and the other students their club
advisor in JROTC Instructor Commander William Lapour for

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adding another layer of knowledge and preparedness
for our Troy family in the event of

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a disaster. Principal Minster said the
Troy Preparedness Club, counting almost one hundred

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members, plans to host weekend workshops
throughout the semester for students in their families

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and help forty more students become certified
in emergency response training through CERT this summer.

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So the article doesn't really say anything
else about amateur radio. It does

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say amateur radio was sort of involved
because CERT generally involves amateur radio sometimes sometimes

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not, depends on the cert organization, depends on how many hams are involved

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in that CERT organization. I would
assume a mean at least they should probably

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be doing GMRS telling everyone to go
get their GMRS license so that they can

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take advantage of local repeaters that might
exist in the area and use simplex for

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certain things like that. But I
wonder what type of CERT organization is in

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your area. You guys who are
involved insert do you have an amateur radio

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presence there? And have you ever
heard of something like this at a high

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school? I wonder if maybe i'll
send this this video when it's done,

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maybe I'll send it over to Steve
A good game K five Ata at the

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Ada Learel, who is their education
coordinator and say, hey, maybe you

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should reach out to these guys and
see how amateur radio can become involved more

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in this preparedness club. And this
is a call to action for you guys

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to say, are there any amateur
radio preparedness clubs at high schools in your

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area? High schools or colleges,
even even a college course amateur radio preparedness

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or just disaster preparedness in general doesn't
have to be amateur radio cert disaster preparedness,

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disaster response. Are there any courses
like this at the schools in your

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area? Even grade school? I
don't think grade school would be too early

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to start this type of thing.
What do you guys think? Put a

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comment below and let me know what
you think, and if you have links

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to something, email me KC five
HBBT gmail dot com. Seventy three