Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Date: 16th October
Time: 8.00am – 4.00pm
Where: Pershing Square
532 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://lamoves.org/cert/ A Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will be present at Pershing Square for a day of CERT Awareness on Sat. Oct. 16th as part of The Great California ShakeOut program of weeklong events -
http://www.shakeout.org The artistic and business community living in Downtown Los Angeles can and should be prepared to help their fellow neighbors in the event of a disaster. In the event of a major earthquake occurring in Southern California, Emergency Services will be swamped with calls for help.
Cultural workers from every field should become CERT trained. Art has the ability to mobilize a community more than most - the trained also become the trainers! The goal on Oct. 16 at Pershing Square is to get 20-25 people living in Downtown LA to sign up and become CERT trained. Courses are 2.5 hr sessions spread over seven weeks and are FREE.
CERT LA -
http://www.cert-la.com LAFD CERT info -
http://www.lafd.org/cert.htm Citizen Corps CERT -
http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/ "Recently, we have received several emails from people asking if, when there is an earthquake, they should stand or lie down near a sofa or get underneath a doorway"
and then they show some poor victim under a desk where it will crush the person under it.
Stats show you are far more likely to survive if you *lay next to a solid object* not under it.
This is BS, bogus, poo poo and a heap of miss information.
