CERT Events
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Nichols Canyon Evacuation Drill
and Meeting On Upcoming Evacuation Drill

Saturday, September 6, 2008
10:00am-12:30am

The Los Angeles Fire Department, in conjunction with the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council and the Upper Nichols Canyon Neighborhood Association, is planning a fire evacuation drill. All of Nichols Canyon and connecting streets, including all members of the Upper Nichols Canyon Neighborhood Association, will be voluntarily evacuated.

The purpose of this drill is to test the ability of the Fire Department, the Police Department and other emergency services to evacuate the residents of a canyon of the Hollywood Hills (including adults, children and pets) while at the same time bringing up resources and equipment up from the city to deal with a major wildfire threat.

Hollywood High School will be the designated evacuation site.

More details will be available later.

Let us know if you can participate as a CERT responder.

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9/11 Memorial Ceremony - CERT members needed

On Thursday, September 11, 2008, at 10:00am - 2:00pm, the Los Angeles Fire Department will host the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center.

The LAFD has requested CERT members to help with ushering and parking.

Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center
1700 Stadium Way
Los Angeles 90012

Let us know if you can be there.

Thank you.
Linda Underwood for www.cert-la.com

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CERT Community Meetings

CERT Community Meetings are open to the public. You can attend any CERT Community Meeting. Get more details and directions on the website.

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CERT REFRESHER
Sunday, November 16, 2008
8:00am - 4:30pm   (Registration starts at 7:00am)

LAFD Fire Station 88
5101 North Sepulveda Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Hosted by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

SIGN UP NOW at http://www.cert-la.com/refresher.htm

The drill is open to all graduates of CERT training programs.

Come practice and refresh the skills you learned during the Basic CERT Program Course.
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Linda Underwood
cert-la@usa.net
for www.cert-la.com

PLEASE NOTE:

We have been doing tests of the automated call-out system for Division Call-Outs. We will no longer use the Battalion Call-Out System.

If you have signed up for a Division Call-Out Team or a REDY Team, and you did not get a test call, let us know. If you want to be on a call-out team, please sign up at http://www.cert-la.com/call-out-register.htm

Regarding Earthquakes

NBC recently broadcast "10.5," a two-part miniseries about a series of unrealistic earthquakes, culminating in an earthquake that separates a portion of southern California from the mainland.

While the miniseries contained many of the myths that we have worked to dispel, the attention creates an educational opportunity.

The Earthquake Country Alliance, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have created a series of web pages addressing the miniseries, to separate fact from movie fiction.

The pages are at http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5

The web pages include:
* links to official comments from state and federal organizations
* a list of many of the errors in the miniseries and why they are wrong
* earthquake preparedness information
* lesson plans to help teachers respond to their students' concerns or questions
* links to many other earthquake-related websites
* the online version of the updated "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country."

The idea is that if you have questions, or if others ask you questions, you can simply refer to these web pages at http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5.

If you have questions about the website, think they omitted something important, or want to make any other comments, please contact Ilene Cooper at icooper@usc.edu or Wendy Shindle at wshindle@usgs.gov, who have worked together to create this resource.