I met Randy Linthicum at Operation Sunrise -- he was demonstrating an online system which registers licensed health professionals to be called upon during a disaster/emergency.
While CERT volunteers should proactively locate medical resources within their neighborhoods, this system effectively and officially manages the database.
Please go to: https://medicalvolunteer.ca.gov/
If you're a licensed health professional with an active license, or a member of a medical disaster response team in California who would like to volunteer for disaster service, you've come to the right place! The California Medical Volunteer Site is your secure, confidential site to register with the State of California for volunteer emergency/disaster service. During the on-line registration process, you will be asked to enter information regarding your license (if applicable), the best way to contact you, and other relevant background information. (If you have already completed the registration process or wish to return to a registration which you've started but not completed, you can log in and update your profile.)
The main web-site for Emergency Medical Services Authority (State of California) is: http://www.emsa.ca.gov/
Welcome to Ojai Valley CERT
IMPORTANT UPDATE.....
THIS WEB-SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED.
PLEASE GO TO HTTP://OJAIVALLEYCERT.ORG
This blog provides information to those interested in CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) activities in The Ojai Valley, CA. CERT works in partnership with OVARC (Ojai Valley Amateur Radio Club) which provides Ham Radio Communications - http://www.ovarc.org/.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert is a good place to begin learning about CERT. The fact is, immediately after a major disaster, each of us will be on our own while Emergency Services Personnel (Fire, Hospital, Police, Hospitals, etc) figure out what happened and how to respond. CERT teaches valuable self-preservation skills and empowers each of us to be of service to ourselves, family, neighborhood and community. By integrating CERT with Ham Radio, citizens can effectively communicate actionable information from the field to the Emergency Operations Center -- help will be on the way sooner.
Please check out the CERT Calendar & Map at the bottom of this web-page and sign our Guestbook (top right of page).
