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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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CERT “Victims” Bring Realistic Touch to Queens Disaster Drill

October 19, 2010 – 1:23 am

It looked like a scene from Night of the Living Dead, but these mangled bodies, gruesome though they looked wandering around in shock or sprawled in the middle of a busy Queens intersection this past Sunday, were very much alive.

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You done us proud!

April 21, 2010 – 2:21 am

A seven-alarm fire was raging at 283 Grand Street, a six-story building in Chinatown. Flames were shooting 20 to 30 feet in the air and more than 60 Fire Department vehicles were converging on the scene. It was not long before two adjoining buildings — 285 and 289 — were in flames.

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Daily Mercies at the Brooklyn Armory

March 27, 2010 – 2:25 am

Perhaps two weeks following the January 12 earthquake that leveled much of Haiti, a 21-year-old Haitian-American woman came into the HERC center holding the hand of her 24-year-old sister. The older sister appeared dazed and not fully cognizant of what was happening around her. From time to time, she would ask for her mother.

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