QUAD CITY CERT

The basic CERT course will include those components necessary to get you started and capable of performing basic CERT functions. The training program is hands-on, realistic and is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your school, your workplace, and your neighbors and your neighborhood in emergency and non-emergency situations. We also support all of our communities by providing local assistance and participating at community events... Banding together as a team in June of 2003, the four communities began the cooperative effort to create the QUAD CITY CERT. Under the direction of the Executive Board, committees developed procedures for training, team activation, transportation, communication, and mass inoculation. The team created a website, an on-line database; and By-Laws. It was awarded two FEMA grants which were used to purchase necessary equipment including a fire training unit, a trailer, CERT disaster kits, and other emergency related supplies. A mass inoculation..