Disaster Medical Ops
Triage and assessing life-threatening injuries.
Don't wait for help. Be the help in your community. Frenchtown CERT trains local volunteers to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program trains local citizens to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. When professional first responders are overwhelmed, Frenchtown CERT volunteers step up to provide vital assistance.
Formed in January 2011, we primarily serve Frenchtown Township and Monroe County, and are an available resource for the region. Our volunteers, ages 18 and up, come from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Supporting our community through education, preparedness, and good works.
Every volunteer completes 20 hours of CERT Basic Training, then builds on it year round. The list keeps growing as we take on new skills and tasks.
Triage and assessing life-threatening injuries.
All members are CPR/AED certified and trained in first aid, including splinting.
Extinguishing small fires and assessing hazardous situations.
Structure search, damage documentation, missing persons, and safety operations.
Nourishment, hydration, and climate protection for our local firefighters.
Traffic management, weather spotting, radio communications, and free community preparedness classes.
Rehab-1 is our deployment vehicle, a retired ambulance kept at Frenchtown Fire Station #3. After every call it is cleaned and restocked, with thorough truck checks each month.
In major storms or emergencies, local resources are stretched thin.
We provide all the professional, hands-on training completely free.
Become an essential part of the county's safety network.
Interested in volunteering? Fill out this short form and we'll email you the details of our next meeting.
At the meeting, you'll meet the team, receive the volunteer application, and get additional details about training and what CERT membership involves.
We meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. Volunteers must be 18 or older.
Contact us to learn how to join, request support for an event, or ask about our free classes.