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CERT
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What is CERT?
Kirkland's Community Emergency Response Team training is a FEMA-based curriculum designed to teach adults of all ages and abilities how to help themselves, their families, and their neighbors during a disaster when police, fire, and medical services are overwhelmed.
The City of Kirkland CERT Program hosts two CERT training courses a year, in the spring and fall. Click here for more information about our current class.
A training course consists of eight 3-hour classes, once a week for eight weeks. Each course ends with a full-scale simulated disaster drill, complete with volunteer “victims”, during which CERTs practice their disaster response skills.
CERT Training teaches you to: