We want to thank everyone who visited our booth at this year’s Ferndale Festival. It was a perfect weather day, and the turnout was fantastic. We look forward to the next community-based event where we can say hello and introduce you to CERT and our organization, Anne Arundel Annapolis CERT.
See our Facebook page for more pictures of AAACERT in action.
From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.
Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.
This new issue of the Alexandria CERT newsletter focuses on flooding: Flooding is one of the more costly natural disasters that can affect a community. More frequent, more intense storms in the Mid-Atlantic are
bringing heavier rainfall to storm systems that were never designed or outfitted for weather this severe.
Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and work colleagues.
We are proud to introduce our new logo. After over two years of planning and many rounds of votes and edits, members have chosen this logo and we couldn’t be more excited.
From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.
Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.
This new issue of the Alexandria CERT newsletter is for your pets: how to prepare yourself and them for disasters and things to do for them during and after disasters. You can also learn about CARTs — Community Animal Response Teams. Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and work colleagues.
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 the CERTCON website and links to photos.
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 scenario started with a mass casualty incident (nearby fire and 87 passengers in various states of distress). Firefighters and paramedics did initial triage, secondary triage, and then transported victims to a treatment area.
Check out our Facebook page for more photos provided by AAACERT member Rich Saad.
From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.
Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.
Here is the holiday edition of the CERT newsletter, with a focus hazards and safety tips for cooking. The second page of the newsletter covers safety for shopping online, winter travel, and preventing fires during the winter.
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Yes, you read that right, CERTCON. This event is open to EVERYONE, not just CERT members.
The National Capital Region has been hosting a CERTCON since 2011. This year marks the first year it will be hosted by the National Capital Region CERT Consortium (NCRC).
This multi-day event will feature sessions on community safety such as stop the bleed, emergency chef, and duct tape triage; just to name a few.
If you are not a member of a CERT, here is your opportunity to see some of the things a CERT member can volunteer to take part in while giving you the opportunity to speak to CERT members from around the region.
The three links below will provide more details about the NCRC, CERTCON, along with a flyer for this event.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
September is Recovery Month. Join the Anne Arundel County Department of Health’s campaign and SHOW US YOUR SIGN!
We hope you will come out and join AAACERT and the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management for the 2022 Emergency Preparedness Expo.
The expo will be held Saturday, September 17 from 10am-2pm at the Anne Arundel Community College Arundel Mills Campus.
This free, family-friendly event has hands-on displays, games, and activities for all ages provided by various County public safety agencies and our partners. This event is sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management as part of National Preparedness Month and is intended as a fun-filled way to learn about preparing for emergencies!
The Arc, “…advocate(s) for equity and access for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live self-determined lives and foster opportunities towards self-sufficiency.”
Since June, AAACERT has been proud to set up our community tent next to The Arc Central Chesapeake Region during the First Sunday Arts Festival in Annapolis. AAACERT provided emergency and disaster preparedness material for visitors and answered questions about our mission and how people can better prepare themselves.
The Arc set up a very special tent where visitors, mainly children and young adults, would sit and paint their vision of what First Responders and Preparedness mean to them. They would first sketch out their ideas and once completed, they would paint them on a tile. All paintings will eventually come together in a tapestry-type display.
We look forward to working with The Arc on many more events in the future. We encourage you to check out their website at www.thearc.org
If you’d like to print out a copy of the emergency preparedness forms and checklists, visit our new BE PREPARED page on our website at www.aaacert.org/be-prepared/
About National Night Out National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community and provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances.
The Anne Arundel County Police Department Eastern Branch invites the entire community to participate in the National Night Out event on August 2, 2022 (6-8pm) at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Station.
About National Night Out National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community and provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances.
We would like to thank everyone who visited our tents during the 2022 National Night Out event held at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company in Severna Park and the Lula G. Scott Community Center in Shady Side. The sun was out, and the temps were high, but AAACERT members came prepared with fans, hats, and sunscreen.
We provided disaster preparedness materials to visitors including flash cards with checklists of items to have on hand during a disaster such as a violent storms like tornados, hurricanes, or major wind. We now offer these FEMA-created materials on our new BE PREPARED page. Check it out and print out your preparedness documents, today.
We are very grateful to our partners at Anne Arundel County OEM for allowing us to share their tent space. Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!
Our friends at Alexandria VA CERT create very informative newsletters. We are happy to begin sharing them with the community at large.
Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.
This month’s newsletter highlights the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline available by calling or texting 988. Please read for more information.
We want to thank everyone who visited our booth at this year’s Linthicum Fair. It was an absolutely beautiful day and the turnout was fantastic. We look forward to the next community-based event where we can say hello and introduce you to CERT and our organization, Anne Arundel Annapolis CERT.
Check out our website for more details and links to our social media pages. www.aaacert.org
We would like to thank everyone that visited our tent during the 2021 National Night Out event held at the Earleigh Heights VFC. The sun stayed away and the wind kept things at a very nice temperature after days of 90 plus degrees.
We provided disaster preparedness material to visitors including flash cards with checklists of items to have on hand during a disaster such as a violent storms like tornados, hurricanes, or major wind.
If you visited our tent and signed our training email list, you also entered into our
giveaway for a one of two preparedness kits. Congrats to the winners.
The Anne Arundel County Fire Department is celebrating the second full week of April (April 11-17, 2021) as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. This week, sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and celebrated annually, honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch emergency professionals and equipment, and render life-saving assistance to the world’s citizens.
Twenty-eight Fire Communications Operators (FCO) and eight lieutenants staff Fire Alarm on a 24/72 shift schedule. Eleven newly hired FCOs and four lieutenants were trained in 2020 to make this staffing model a reality for years to come. This 24/72 schedule, started in January, 2020, has improved morale, and improved efficiency by creating continuity between field and personnel members. FCOs receive more than 1,000 hours of initial training, including certification in Emergency Medical Dispatch, and Emergency Fire Dispatch.
These calm voices on the 911 telephones and on the radio waves quite often go unnoticed, but the Anne Arundel County Fire Department consider the members of Fire Alarm to be the “Golden Glue that holds it all together” for our Department. If anyone from your organization is interested in recognizing the members of our Communications Center in any way during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, please contact Captain Erik Kornmeyer at ErikKornmeyer@aacounty.org. Letters of thanks can be mailed to the following address:
Anne Arundel County Fire Department
Fire Communications
8501 Veterans Highway
Millersville, MD 21108
AAACERT is happy to share the following Spring 2021 Disaster Dispatch from the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management quarterly Newsletter.
In this issue you will find information about Flood Awareness including tools to see your community’s risk, a message from Director Preeti Emrick, Financial Emergency Preparedness tools, and a number of important contacts at the Office of Emergency Management.
Please click the link below to see the PDF of the Newsletter.
