Belmar, New Jersey has just graduated its first CERT class, and has started to recruit a second. Belmar, sensibly, takes an approach that makes it easy for participants to complete the one night per week/eight week program, apparently also providing gear rather than making new volunteers find their own (and, alas, often get fleeced in [...]
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Our first experiment at displaying data in this way. NB:1 This is data reported to FEMA by the states – or directly by local administrators; We know nothing from this data of size, effectiveness, equipment, capabilities of CERT teams Other volunteer organizations – volunteer ambulance corps, fire departments, and other groups, like The 3 Steps [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.