Happy March from Saratoga CERT!

Meeting & Events 

The next Saratoga CERT meeting will be held on Thursday March 28th – 5:30-7pm at the Saratoga Recreation Portable @ Joan Pisani Community Center 

Saratoga CERT will have a booth at the Saratoga Blossom Festival – Saturday, April 13th – please contact Jessica Fullmer to volunteer – jhfullmer@sustainablebusiness.org or 408.348.3201 

The Cox CERT Division will be holding their next monthly meeting at Lori Stafford’s house on Thursday evening, 7 March 2019, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m

West Valley-Quito CERT Division’s next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 21st at Raji’s house.

Training 

Santa Clara County Fire Department will be holding Wildfire Preparedness Community Meetings in April and May: http://saratogacert.org/2019/03/01/sccfd-wildfire-preparedness-community-meetings/ 

City of Santa Clara CERT will be holding Commodity Point of Distribution Worker Training near the end of March: http://saratogacert.org/2019/02/23/city-of-santa-clara-cert-training-commodity-point-of-distribution-worker-training/ 

Santa Clara County OES will be holding a 3-day course for FEMA ICS 300 Intermediate Incident Command System – March 18-20: http://saratogacert.org/2019/02/19/santa-clara-county-oes-course-ics-300-intermediate-incident-command-system/ 

Campbell CERT will hold “Stop the Bleed” training in April: http://saratogacert.org/2019/03/06/campbell-cert-stop-the-bleed-training-april-2019/ 

You can always take FEMA’s online courses. Course 100.C Introduction to Incident Command System: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c and Course 700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-700.b

Minutes 

The February Quito/WV Division meeting minutes can be found at http://saratogacert.org/2019/02/26/minutes-saratoga-cert-quito-west-valley-division-february-2019/ 

The February Cox Division meeting minutes can be found at http://saratogacert.org/2019/02/21/saratoga-cert-cox-divison-minutes-feb-2019/

Misc 

Don’t forget to get your DSW Card if you dont already have one, or to get it renewed if it expires – see the details at http://saratogacert.org/documents/ 

We are still using the Yahoo! group for backup announcements. If you are not in the group please apply at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/saratoga_cert/