Founded in 1973, the Pacific Palisades Community Council has as its purpose:

To be a forum for the discussion of community issues.

To be an advocate for the Pacific Palisades to government and private agencies upon those issues where there is broad community agreement.

To assist other organizations in the Pacific Palisades which request help in accomplishing their objectives or purposes, and which the Council chooses to support.

Area 3 of the PPCC extends from Palisades Drive to Bienveneda, north and south of Sunset Blvd. Area 3 encompasses the Marquez Knolls area, the Bel-Air Bay Club area as well as other streets and homes in the vicinity.

Friday, October 26, 2012

CERT - Community Awareness Response Training

At the 10/26 PPCC meeting last night we had a presentation from Captain Christopher Cooper and Firefighter Susan Jensen regarding community emergency response and CERT Training, which stands for Community Emergency Response Team.

CERT trains local individuals to be able to assist in the response to community emergencies such as earthquakes, wildfires and other natural disasters until emergency agency personnel such as fire and police are able to arrive.  It is expected that in the case of widespread community emergencies, it may take as long a seven days for emergency personnel to make it to a particular site.  Thus, it is extremely important that individuals in the community take the initiative and complete the 17 1/2 hour CERT Training program.

For more information, please go to http://www.cert-la.com.
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