Community Emergency Response Team

What is CERT? 

Community Emergency Response Teams, or CERT, is organized under the direction and leadership of the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office/Emergency Management Division.

CERT training promotes a partnering effort between emergency services and the people that they serve.  The goal is for emergency professionals to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations, or workplaces in basic response skills, and then integrate them into the emergency response capability for their area.  Should a disaster overwhelm or delay the community's professional response, CERT may provide vital services until emergency responders arrive.

CERT training enhances the public's ability to recognize, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major emergency or disaster situation.  Members are trained to take care of themselves, their families and their neighbors before, during and after a major emergency.

CERT's have been used to:
    -- Search for Lost or kidnapped children
    -- Staff Emergency Operations Centers and monitor events
    -- Emergency Operations Center Security; driving, information, assisting disabled visitors and minor first aid
    -- Manage "spontaneous/convergent" volunteers

    -- Assist volunteer organizations on mass care