Do members of the community you serve want to volunteer to help fellow residents? Sometimes it can be difficult to find opportunities for those with low English proficiency. That’s why the Federal ...

CERT trains residents in disaster preparedness, fire safety, light search and rescue, disaster medical operations and team ...

Emergency video communications provider Digital Alert Systems has just released an important update of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) digital certificates used to authenticate messaging ...

Too often, businesses and organizations rely on the hope that first responders will be able to reach them in time during a major disaster. However, the bigger the disaster, the more strain on limited ...

WEST OLIVE, Mich. - The Ottawa County Community Emergency Response Team, also known as CERT, is offering their 24-hour CERT basic training course over a span of three Saturday's in June. Attendance at ...

The University of Massachusetts Lowell Office of Life Safety & Emergency Management, in collaboration with FEMA, UMass Lowell EMS, UMass Lowell Police, and Lowell Fire Department & Emergency ...

FEMA's community emergency response team program educates volunteers about how to help their community during emergency situations.That program is now growing in East Texas. When a natural disaster ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Emergency Management Director Dan Heerding and the Clovis High School Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) have been awarded the FEMA Region 6 Youth Preparedness Award ...

TheCommunity Emergency Response Teams (CERT) is a wonderful concept for providing training on basic emergency responder skills to average citizens. Some jurisdictions and emergency managers may have ...

Despite a weak hurricane season for the greater Houston area in 2010, emergency services at the local and federal level are urging residents to start preparing now in the event of an emergency.

Working smoke detectors in the home can reduce deaths from home fire by half, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Wildfires and preemptive power shutoffs on an unprecedented scale have ...