Recently, 28 members of the CHS NJROTC were Community Emergency Response Team Certified. Five instructors from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety spent 15 hours with the cadets in order to get them certified.
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is a nationally supported, locally implemented initiative that teaches people how to better prepare themselves for hazards that may affect their communities. Since 1993, CERT trains the public in basic disaster response skills such as team organization, disaster medical operations, fire safety, and light search and rescue. The ability for CERT volunteers to perform these activities frees up professional responders to focus their efforts on more complex, essential, and critical tasks.