Surfpulse posted that the SFFD Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) is looking for a few good men and women.
There are thousands of trained NERT volunteers across the city, but the Outer Richmond is particulary understaffed. After an earthquake, city services are overwhelmed and depend on help provided by trained volunteers, like those in NERT.
Based on a neighbor helping neighbor approach, NERT volunteers are trained in the basics of personal preparedness and prevention. The training also includes hands-on disaster skills that will help individuals respond to a personal emergency as well as act as members of a neighborhood response team.
The training consists of six 3-hour sessions (one per week), and at the end of the six weeks, you are certified and are given a helmet, a snazzy reflective vest, and gloves.
The SFFD holds regular NERT trainings, but if enough neighbors (15-20) in the Outer Richmond are interested, they can hold special sessions in the neighborhood.
Contact Outer Richmond District resident and NERT coordinator Gabriel Lampert at gabriel@nmsu.edu for more information.
Sarah B.
Hello. I’m glad you’ve publicized the need for more NERT volunteers in the Outer Richmond. I am NOT, however, the coordinator; I’m just trying to get folks interested. I just finished NERT training myself, and would like to have more colleagues in that regard. Thanks.