Safety First
The precaution we use because, alone in a space, nobody can hear you scream.
What is the buddy system?
These three conditions must come together to form the fire triangle.
What are heat, fuel, and oxygen?
A program rather than an organization, the acronym A-R-E-S stands for this.
What is Amateur Radio Emergency Service?
The CZU complex fire showed: this group doesn’t just rescue horses.
What is Equine Evac?
This disaster was just in time for Halloween.
What was the Loma Prieta (1989) Earthquake?
This practice is essential if you don’t want to be missed or left behind.
What is checking in and checking out?
This environmental disaster often occurs months after a major wildfire.
What are mudslides or Debris Flow?
ARES is a program that is run and trademarked by this national organization.
What is the American Radio Relay League or ARRL?
With this program, you don’t just love thy neighbor. You also have his back.
What is Map Your Neighborhood?
When mountains moved, not all victims in this small Ben Lomond community were ever found.
What was Love Creek?
This specialized attire helps protect against sickness and injury during an emergency operation.
What is personal protection equipment or PPE?
This area is cleared around the home to minimize ember-spread wildfire.
What is defensible space?
She’s in charge of organizing numerous radio operator communications during an event or disaster.
Who is the Net Control Operator or NCO?
This city’s fire department first developed CERT in the late 1980s following several area-wide disasters in previous years.
What was Los Angeles?
Founded in response to deadly 1982 mudslides, this organization has evolved into a community service hub in San Lorenzo Valley.
What is Mountain Community Resources or MCR?
This person develops and implements a safety and security plan and keeps the peace during a CERT operation.
Who is the CERT Safety Officer?
Known by the acronym PASS, These four steps are followed when using a fire extinguisher.
What are Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
This device gives your signal a helpful boost across the region.
What is a repeater?
When Santa Cruz Office of Emergency Services gives the word, these agencies activate CERTs in local communities around the county.
What are local fire stations?
This once grand hotel on Highway 9 has been plagued with drownings, falling deaths, and a fire that destroyed a significant portion in 2009.
What is Brookdale Lodge?
These diamond shaped signs tell you there are hazardous materials inside.
What are DOT (Department of Transportation) placards?
This type of device uses CO2 to remove air from electrical fires.
What is the Type C fire extinguisher?
A specialized net for hospitals, fire stations, churches, emergency organizations and weather observers.
What is the served agencies net?
This federal agency runs CERT as one of five federal programs under Citizen Corps.
What is Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA?
This 2011 event caused $20 million in damage to the Santa Cruz harbor.
What was the Tohuku Japanese earthquake and tsunami?