Block Captain Duties
Prepare your own household, CERT Training is a great
foundation. Invest in your own
set of walkie talkies and become
trained on walkie talkies by participating in your weekly Precinct Comm
drill.
Deliver the Emergency Ribbons to your neighbors and share
with them how and when they will use them, invite them to participate in
practice drills using the ribbons.
Get to know your block of neighbors and exchange contact
info, find out who has tools and equipment needed for search and rescue of
neighbors.
Attend periodic
Precinct Team Training meetings, learn
and practice your neighborhood emergency plan.
Keep in touch with your team and share what you learn with your family
and neighbors. Encourage working
relationships
Consider First Aid Training and CPR to enrich your skill
base
Know your Team, know
your Precinct
In an emergency,
Secure of your own household and family first, then
report your neighbors emergency ribbon status and be ready for dispatch
Precinct Leader
Prepare your own household,
take your CERT Training, First Aid Training & CPR.
Using your Precinct Map
(obtained from the City GIS Specialist), divide your neighborhood into blocks
of 6-10 line of sight households (if not done), number the blocks beginning
with #1, invite a neighbor (or a couple) from each block to join your team and
serve as Block Captains. Assign them
their Block # from the map, this is their Captain #.
Generate a Precinct
Team Contact List: including Precinct #,
CERTS, Block Captain #, Name, Phone #, E-mail, # Homes of each BC. Distribute to everyone on your
team. Use for your weekly communication drills (same day, same time) that you
have planned with your Precinct Comms (in charge of your weekly communication
drills) with your Precinct Team.
Your Precinct Team members (Block Captains and CERTS)
invest in their own set of walkie talkies.
Create your CERT Cache
(emergency supply trailer) see Supplies
list. Use donations from the neighbors in your Precinct. Work together.
Attend quarterly City Precinct
Leader Team Training for additional training, support and assistance in
creating your Neighborhood Emergency Plan.
Hold periodic meetings with
your Block Captains and CERTS, encourage family preparation to be shared with
neighbors, cover training on the emergency ribbons, practice with your team and neighbors.
Create your Precinct
Emergency Plan, including the physical sites of your Neighborhood Command Post,
shelter, water and food for the emergency team, also, medical staging area for
triage and treatment area, morgue, nursery, and pets. Assign Team Leaders for set up.
You oversee your
neighborhood plan (as per CERT Training)
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Know your Team, know
your Precinct
In an emergency,
Take Care of your own
household and family first,
Set up the command post,
with your Precinct Comms, work together
to dispatch CERTS,
Organize non-CERT volunteers
appropriately
Be prepared to turn over all responsibility to the
City First Responders when they arrive
Precinct Comms Duties
Prepare your own household, become trained on
walkie talkies, then train your Block Captains and CERTS. CERT
Training is a great foundation. Consider
HAM Radio Training. Plan a day and time with your Precinct Team
to hold your weekly drill.
You
are over communication to and from your Precinct. Including the education and follow
through of drills with your Block Captains and CERTS. (BC Reporting Roster).
Over
time as you layer the different levels of your plan, you will include neighbors
practicing with Emergency Ribbons, BC reporting the ribbon status, and dispatch
of CERTS & BC to the needed areas where
needed.
Practice conquers
fear. As you drill, take note of your
neighborhood’s best and worst reception areas. Make sure Precinct Team know
where those bad areas are.
As a Precinct, meet,
plan, practice
Know your
Team…Precinct Leader, Block Captains, CERTS, Neighbors
In an emergency,
Take Care of your own household and family first
Set up your neighborhood
Command Post with your Precinct Leader
Prepare to receive
BC Emergency Ribbon reporting status
Dispatch CERTS &
CERT Trained BC to needed areas for search and rescue
Be prepared to
request assistance from or to give assistance to a neighboring precinct if
able.
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