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being a member of the community. Have you ever heard of a high school offering a disaster preparedness training class, a CERT class, a disaster response class. This high school in California is actually doing it, and I wanted to tell you about it today. This comes to us from OCDE newsroom, which is Orange County and beyond Orange County and Beyond Orange County, California. Troy High School students prepared to aid their community with disaster response. So this is
a really cool story. I thought i'd share it with you guys, because when I was in high school a while back, a couple of years ago, it was more than that. But you know, I'm going to say a couple of years ago, when I was in high school, they didn't offer anything like this. Now CERT, they're going to talk about CERT in this article. Community Emergency Response team, and we have CERT teams in various cities around the area where I live, But that thing didn't exist back then.
This is a fairly new effort, and I think CERT is great. If you have CERT in your area, in your neighborhood and your city, your county. Put a comic blow. I'd love to hear how active it is and if if you use Ham radio. Some sart uses Ham radio, some sort uses gmrs or FRS radios. Of course GMRS you have to be licensed just like Ham radio. But I wonder what type of radio comms your
SERT team or your SERT group uses. Safely navigating fires, responding to hazardous materials, and assisting light search and rescue operations are just a few notch as Troy High School students have added to their emergency preparedness tool belt during a recent training with Fullerton Fire and Police departments. Okay, so the fire and police
department is involved, so this is already really cool. From January third to January fifth of this year, thirty seven members from Troy Preparedness Club gathered at the Fulleton Public Library to hear the local experts like Fulleton Emergency Manager Christy Hofsted or Battiste alongside Fullerton Fire Chief Adam Loser and police Chief John Ratus on a
wide range of tactics when responding to an emergency. After experiencing potential fire disaster in his family home as a child, tenth grader Alan Cy HSI, e H, I don't know how to say that. SI. I'm gonna say SI. Started attending a SERT Community Emergency Response Team And if we click here, it takes us to it just a FEMA and it defines what SERT is. But okay, all right, that's cool. Most if you don't know what SIRT is, quit a comment blow. Maybe I'll do a separate video.
If enough people don't know what SERT is, put a comic blow, maybe I'll do a video on that. Trainings for Youth became inspired to make preparedness more accessible to his classmates. With the support of Troy's Nationaltional Junior ROTC instructor Commander William Lapour, Allen created a Troy Preparedness Club and reached out to local first responders to initiate a training exclusively for Troy High School students. Okay, so this is cool. So this is at the direction of a student.
This is not something that the fire and Police department came up with, not something that the school itself initiated. But this was initiated by a student, and apparently everyone's jumped on board with it so far. So I'd like to know. I'd be curious to see how far it's going to go. I'm not gonna read this whole article to you, but I will link it
in the description below. So the three day workshop adapted a CERT training for young learners by incorporating a group activities like video projects and amateur radio modules. Here we Go. Amateur radio experts within each division presented on topics including disaster
psychology, medical operations, and team organization. The National CERT program offers a consistent approach for training, organizing volunteers, and best support professional responders during disaster situations, according to the According to FEMA, students learn about proper fire safety and utilities through hands on simultaneous siltations led by Battalion Chief Ismail Maturino and Fullerton's Station three fire crew, while other local experts showed students the basics of first
aid training. Our mission is to train students, equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills so that in case of disaster, they are not a victim but a survivor. Alan said, Okay. Today's video is sponsored by LDG Electronics. LDG makes a variety of antenna tuners, mobile tuners, base station tuners, all kinds of amateur radio products. It is an American mom and pop shop. They will be featured at the Gigaparts table at Hamcash of twenty
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for supporting this video. So the article goes on to talk about a few other things, and it kind of closes with thank you to our student Alan Sy and the other students their club advisor in JROTC Instructor Commander William Lapour for adding another layer of knowledge and preparedness for our Troy family in the event of
a disaster. Principal Minster said the Troy Preparedness Club, counting almost one hundred members, plans to host weekend workshops throughout the semester for students in their families and help forty more students become certified in emergency response training through CERT this summer.
So the article doesn't really say anything else about amateur radio. It does say amateur radio was sort of involved because CERT generally involves amateur radio sometimes sometimes not, depends on the cert organization, depends on how many hams are involved in that CERT organization. I would assume a mean at least they should probably be doing GMRS telling everyone to go get their GMRS license so that they can take advantage of local repeaters that might exist in the area and use simplex for
certain things like that. But I wonder what type of CERT organization is in your area. You guys who are involved insert do you have an amateur radio presence there? And have you ever heard of something like this at a high
school? I wonder if maybe i'll send this this video when it's done, maybe I'll send it over to Steve A good game K five Ata at the Ada Learel, who is their education coordinator and say, hey, maybe you should reach out to these guys and see how amateur radio can become involved more in this preparedness club. And this is a call to action for you guys to say, are there any amateur radio preparedness clubs at high schools in your
area? High schools or colleges, even even a college course amateur radio preparedness or just disaster preparedness in general doesn't have to be amateur radio cert disaster preparedness, disaster response. Are there any courses like this at the schools in your area? Even grade school? I don't think grade school would be too early to start this type of thing. What do you guys think? Put a comment below and let me know what you think, and if you have links
to something, email me KC five HBBT gmail dot com. Seventy three