CERTCON 2022
Thank you to everyone who came out to the CERTCON 2022 event held in Alexandria, VA. CERTCON is open to everyone interested in emergency preparedness and response, including volunteers for Medical Reserve Corps, Red Cross, Team Rubicon, among others. We encourage anyone, a member of CERT or not, to attend the 2023 CERTCON. Check out […]
EPLEX 2022
AAACERT is proud to have helped support the 2022 EPLEX event at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on November 5, 2022 by providing over 30 volunteers to help first responders from the BWI Fire Department and surrounding jurisdictions train for a mass casualty incident such as a plane crash. Great moulage added to the realism. The […]
Show Your Sign – Recovery Month 2022
September is Recovery Month. Join the Anne Arundel County Department of Health’s campaign and SHOW US YOUR SIGN! https://www.aahealth.org/show-us-your-sign/
Pride Festival Booth 2022
Anne Arundel Annapolis CERT was honored to participate in the 2022 Pride Festival in Annapolis on Saturday June 04. Volunteer members of AAACERT also participated as the Pride Parade Marshals, helping to organize the participants and keep the parade route safe for everyone. At the festival, our tent was joined by tents from Anne Arundel […]
2021 Russett Community Fall Festival
The 2021 Russett Community’s Fall Festival had over 90 vendor tables. This year AAACERT was honored to be asked to help direct vendor traffic into their assigned spots while keeping pedestrians safe from vehicle traffic. We look forward to helping next year and with many other events planned at Russett. If your community or organization […]
Members Support Downtown Annapolis As Safe Health Practice Ambassadors
Anne Arundel-Annapolis Community Emergency Response Team (AAACERT) members are assisting the City of Annapolis in the downtown area as safe health practice ambassadors. While on their walks, the AAACERT members encourage downtown guests to maintain social distancing, avoid large groups, and wear masks. When they have masks available, they are also handing out face coverings […]
20 Twitter accounts we’re following on COVID-19 preparedness
When you hear something on social media about the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, it’s important to consider who is making the statement or suggestion, what they are asking you to do, and what is the evidence for their suggested course of action. During a disaster response, it’s vital to seek out trustworthy sources of […]
Training for Response to Opioid Overdose
An opioid is any drug that contains opium or its derivative. Opioids vary in lethality per individual and circumstances. The effects of an opioid overdose can be reversed by naloxone (brand name Narcan).
Biological Incidents and the Role of CERT
Ms. Arlene G. Crow, Emergency Manager for Anne Arundel Community College, recently provided training to the Anne Arundel-Annapolis Community Emergency Response Team (AAACERT) on the operational members’ potential role in a biological incident. Ms. Crow began the session by outlining the various forms and categories of bio-agents that might trigger a need for prophylactic dispensing […]
Members Assist Responders at Preparedness Expo
Anne Arundel-Annapolis Community Emergency Response Team (AAACERT) members supported the annual Preparedness Expo on September 22nd at Marley Station in Glen Burnie.
Upper Marlboro Community Day
Making sure that the first time we work together isn’t during an emergency or disaster, AAACERT members Bruce Morgenstern, Rosy Dorffner, Joe Dorffner, and Marilyn Zachariah (not pictured) supported Upper Marlboro CERT with the Town of Upper Marlboro Community Day as volunteer ambassadors, providing safety/security and general support. Upper Marlboro CERT members shown in the photo are Wanda Leonard, […]
Monthly Training Explores Dangers of Improvised Explosive Devices
On Wednesday, May 15, Anne Arundel-Annapolis Community Emergency Response Team (AAACERT) President Paul Bowling conducted the group’s monthly training, focusing this iteration on CERT safety in incidents of improvised explosive devices and bombings. The training was held at Anne Arundel Community College. Among the many new facts Paul shared with the group, he reminded attendees […]
Skywarn Spotter Course
The National Weather Service and Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management is offering a free SKYWARN® Spotter Class on April 4, 2019.
If It Smells Rotten … Beware! Poison Toxic Tidbits
From ToxicTidbits a monthly publication of Maryland Poison Control Center, University of Maryland. You are standing near a sewer line and smell rotten eggs. You are helping to resuscitate a patient in cardiopulmonary arrest and smell bitter almonds. What is that odor? Volatilized chemicals that humans and animals perceive by the sense of smell (olfaction) […]
Chemical Suicides Create Dangerous Environments for First Responders
Three law enforcement officers in Georgia were hospitalized in May after being exposed to toxic fumes at the scene of a possible chemical suicide. Chemical suicides involve people mixing easily-attainable chemicals to produce a toxic gas, which can kill rather quickly. Often this is done in an enclosed space such as a car; occasionally people use “exit […]
Winter Preparedness Guide
Check out the Anne Arundel County Winter Storm Preparedness Guide
New Online Course: Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is offering a new self-paced, independent study course, Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster. This course explores how religious and cultural communities are engaged during disasters, how religious and cultural diversity and practice is protected by law, and how religious and cultural diversity can strengthen emergency management capabilities. […]
Anne Arundel – Annapolis CERT to assist American Red Cross with Smoke Detector Program
The Anne Arundel – Annapolis Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will assist the American Red Cross and local Fire Departments with fire education and installing fire alarms on Saturday, 16 January, from 10AM to 4PM. Home fires in the United States kill more than 2,500 people annually and cause an average of 13,000 injuries. Fire […]
Man vs. Machinery Incidents: Are You Prepared? – Webinar
Although CERT isn’t directly involved with response this still may be a seminar of interest and benefit. Man vs. Machinery Incidents: Are You Prepared? Date: December 29, 2015 Time: 3:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM CST / 12:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM GMT Event Description: A variety of machinery-entrapment situations are presented. Students learn how to […]
Recipe for Safe Thanksgiving Cooking
#Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires. Here’s the perfect #recipe for a fire-safe holiday. pic.twitter.com/PzhEBYv6Qr — U.S. Fire (USFA) (@usfire) November 20, 2015