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Blogs and Sites We Like

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Here is a short list of sites we like to get preparedness and incidence information from. If you have a site you like, please let us know. Public Health Surveillance Health Map is created and maintained by a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children’s Hospital founded in 2006, is an established glob [...]

A Profile of the Arlington CERT progr...

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The First CERT Program in Massachusetts The success of the Arlington, Massachusetts CERT program is due to the vision and dedication of a few individuals who believed that citizens have an important role in community preparedness, response and mitigation. Sticking with their vision for decades, Joe Marshall and a few other individuals are cre [...]

The Community Emergency Response Team...

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History The CERT program started in Los Angeles, California before making its journey across the United States and abroad. Officials from LA travelled to Japan in February of 1985 to study its disaster response plans. The team discovered that Japan had extensive training programs that were neighborhood-based, focusing on fire suppression, lig [...]

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