About this Event
The 6th Annual Second Saturday of September (SSOS) Grayburn CERT Neighborhood Disaster Response Full-Functional Exercise tests our volunteer community responders' abilities to form teams following an earthquake and assess the severity of incidents they encounter, report, triage, and stabilize the incidents to buy time for professional first responders or more advanced volunteer Incident Response Teams to arrive.
Over the last year, we have held several single-skill focused drills across the City of Los Angeles that are based off the same standardized drill templates and step-by-step guides so that you can focus on that one skill so you can have a lot of practice and can get it right.
Full-Functional Exercises such as this one put together all the skills taught in previous trainings and drills such Staging Area Operations, sending out Damage Assessment Teams, radioing Incident reports back to Staging, and deploying Incident Response Teams to bring Incidents to conclusion and transport survivors to a Medical Treatment Area where they can be re-assessed and stabilized while determining priority for transport to definitive care so you get to experience the complete response from Start to Finish.
Participants will sign in at the Exercise Briefing Area and then when the Exercise begins, they will be trickled into to the Neighborhood Staging Area where they will check-in as if they were reporting there after a real Earthquake. Participants will be assigned a role ofTeam Leader, Radio Communicator, Scribe, or Hands-On Responder. Abled bodied responders will be deployed on Damage Assessment or Incident Response Teams which will walk the local Neighborhood Blocks.
Those with mobility or physical challenges can support the Staging Area but you will need to be able to walk less than 1,000 feet to the Staging Area.
We will be utilizing the Neighborhood Team Program Drill Format which is based on lessons learned from years of participating in and running CERT and professional first-responder drills. This templated format is an example of how CERT can efficiently and effectively deploy in their own Neighborhoods following a disaster.
Download the Step-By-Step Guides here: https://documents.ntp-la.org
This drill is open to everyone regardless of if you are Community Emergency Response Team trained or live in the area or not. This Drill is also open to observers who do not wish to actively participate in the Drill.
Participants will be expected to bring your disaster response bags. Bring what you have. If you need a list of what should be in your bag, https://www.cert-la.com/cert-la-news/cert-equipment/ is a good start. Do not rush out to buy everything you don't have. If you are not equipped for a certain role, you will be placed into a role you are equipped for.
Expendable supplies such as medical gloves, medical gauze, caution tape, etc. will be provided for you when you need to use it so you do not burn through your own supplies. Make sure you bring them because you will be required to demonstrate that you have them before you will be issued the supplies to use.
Sign-in for the drill will be between 0800 to 0830.
Following the initial briefing, a quick review of disaster medical skills will be given.
The Exercise will conclude with a debrief and light refreshments.
The Gathering Site will be at the South End of Edgehill Drive in the 3999 Block.
Plan to get here early as limited street parking is available towards the North end of the park off of Martin Luther King and Degnan.
Additional Parking available on adjacent street west of Edgehilll: Norton or Degnan.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3999 Edgehill Dr, 3999 Edgehill Drive, Los Angeles, United States
