The Yurok Tribe and Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) Offices of Emergency Services (OES) recently completed another round of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic training in Klamath. CERT is a nationally recognized program teaching individuals the skills needed to help themselves and their communities in a disaster scenario. This training session brought together 13 individuals to spend a weekend learning valuable skills that could help themselves or others in an emergency. During the training weekend, students learned the basics of disaster response, disaster medical operations and psychological first-aid, fire safety, and more. On the last day of this training weekend, students participated in a light search & rescue drill. During this drill, the students put everything they learned into practice, breaking into teams with different roles including search teams, triage teams, and extraction teams. The students worked together through a mock-earthquake scenario, utilizing radio communication to coordinate amongst themselves and get individuals trapped inside a building to safety.
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This round of CERT training was interTribally coordinated between the Yurok Tribe and BLR, led by Amos Pole, ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ and ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, Amos brings a wealth of knowledge, stewardship, and experience to these courses, highlighting the unique challenges faced by Humboldtโs rural residents while simultaneously providing community-center preparedness information and skills.
Originally Published: 4/1/2026