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What Being Prepared Looks Like

April 4, 2011 – 9:26 am

Talk about right place, right time. I was walking down Broadway yesterday when I noticed a man, probably in his thirties, standing in front of a store. He looked to be in distress. As I got closer, I saw his head jerk upward, and his eyes roll back in his head. I knew he was going to fall backward, but knew I would not reach him before he did.

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CERT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital Conduct Overflow Drill

December 23, 2010 – 11:36 am

On the morning of Tuesday, December 21, Upper West Side CERT (Manhattan District 7) joined with CERT from District 12 in setting up a light medical overflow response location in a drill run in conjunction with New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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It’s the Final Leg of Training for NYC CERT’s Cycle 15 Recruits

December 5, 2010 – 2:51 am

On a chilly November night last week, half of the NYC CERT Cycle 15 graduating class performed their final exercise, a post-disaster rescue operation. First responder volunteers and OEM leaders set the stage with CERT team members volunteering as victims. The scenario will be recreated on December 6 when the remaining half of the graduating class are put through their paces.

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Help me, my husband and son are missing!

November 3, 2010 – 11:26 am

It was 6:50 a.m. on a Saturday morning and there we were, CERT volunteers, piling onto shuttle buses at OEM headquarters in Brooklyn or car-pooling from all over the city to participate in part two of NYC Resilience, a full-scale emergency response exercise that had begun the week before with a staged mass-casualty incident.

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