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President’s Desk ……………………..……… 2
Congratulation Graduates ………..……...…..3
Night to Shine ………………………..…….… 4
Cyber Tips & Tricks ………………………….. 5
Become a Helpful Responder
Not a Helpless Bystander…………………..... 6
Better Utility Shut-Off Signage ……...…...…. 7
Patrick Palmer, President
513-256-1501 C
Website
Mason CERT Meetings
3rd Wednesday, 7:00 PM
Fire Station 51, 4420 Mason
Montgomery Rd, Mason,
OH 45040
Curtis Helton, President
(513) 465-7601 C
Website
WC CERT Meetings
4th Tuesday (unless other-
wise noted) 6:30 PM
520 Justice Drive, Lebanon
Ohio 45036 (Lower level)
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Newsletter
Lee Hite
513-240-1129 C
Warren County Amateur
Radio Association
Warren County Mounted
Search Team
Warren County Emergency
Management Agency
Announcements
10th Annual Tristate Disaster Volunteer Summit
When: Saturday, April 28, 2018, from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Where: Receptions, 1379 Donaldson Hwy, Erlanger, KY 41018
What: CPR Training, Psychological First Aid, Hands-on Stop the Bleed, Points of Dispensing (PODs) and 2017 Hurricane Response
Attendance is FREE! , Breakfast and lunch will be provided!
Register Online Here or Call: 859-363-2009, Closes April 22nd.
The City of Mason CERT (New Day, Location and Time)
The monthly meeting has moved from the 3rd Tuesday to the
3rd Wednesday, 7:00 PM, Fire Station 51, 4420 Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040
Meeting nights are: April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17, November 21st and December 19.
HAM License Preparation Class
When: Saturday, April 21, 2018
Time: Sign-in 08:45 AM, Class begins 09:00 AM Sharp
Lunch and snacks will be provided
Where: Warren County Emergency Operations Center
550 Justice Drive, Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Enter through the Board of Elections entrance (Lower level)
Additional information and registration contact:
Judy at 513-494-1417, Email: [email protected]
Sponsored by: Warren County Mounted Search Team
2018 NWS Weather Spotter Training Schedule
MASON CERT
WC– CERT
PARTNERS
R E P O R T
A story, an event or your thoughts . . .
Say Something!
NEWSLETTER CERT of Warren County, Ohio
Community Emergency Response Teams
Vol. 1 Issue 2 April – 2018
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The President’s Desk
Patrick Palmer
President
City of Mason, Ohio CERT
Congratulations to Bryan Brumagen on his promotion to Chief of the MASON
Fire-Rescue-EMS department. We look forward to a great year of CERT
involvement with The City of Mason.
Work continues to build our Volunteer Reception Center /Emergency
Volunteer Center capability with the approval of our budget. The VRC/EVC
program will create a transportable system of signage required to set up a
volunteer intake operation in the event of a disaster. We are using a model
based upon a proven system of experience from another CERT organization .
Mason CERT thanks the City of Mason Library for the January and
February use of their main lobby display case. We received many
positive comments about the professional look. We still have a team
presence in the Library’s back room display case for a few more
months. Please stop by to check it out!
The team continues looking for ways to provide the community with
the preparedness message via interactions with Urbancrest,
weekend presentations, community out-reach, and informing people
of the 911ready.org website.
Thank you to the Warren County Telecom Center for their
assistance with our two-way radios.
In any disaster, emergency or crisis the
ability to communicate is a top priority
among responders.
What: Self-defense class
When: Saturday, April 21st from 9-12:30.
Where Urbancrest, 2634 Drake Rd, Lebanon, OH
Instructor: Jack Mann is a retired law enforcement officer and a firearms
instructor, a defensive tactics instructor, a lifelong martial artist, a legal use of
force and policy specialist. Jack has designed and taught classes for law
enforcement, military, church groups, business organizations and children's
groups.
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Congratulations to the Winter CERT Training Graduating Class of 2018
Thirteen people completed the 20 hour program and are now enjoying the satisfaction that results from being better prepared for an emergency or a disaster.
We extend a special appreciation to out guest instructors and speakers, Chief Deputy Barry Riley from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, Captain Royce Goodpaster from the Maineville Fire Department, Lieutenant Patrick Strausbaugh from the Deerfield Township Fire Department, Operations Manager Lesli Holt from the Warren County Emergency Management Agency and Brian from the Warren County 9-1-1 Communications Center.
The class was made possible by instructors from both Mason CERT and Warren County CERT, Tim Mullis, Patrick Palmer, Casey Gilpin, Tom Schauf and Lee Hite. Support and assistance was graciously provided by CERT members Karl DeBord, Heidi Staub, Esther Grubbs, President Curtis Helton and Mike Kramer. THANK YOU to EVERYONE!
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Night to Shine
750 volunteers, 200 caregivers and 150 parents hosted a red carpet Night to Shine for 400 people with special
needs on Friday, Feb. 9th at Christ’s Church in Mason, Ohio. This was an unforgettable prom night experience for people with special needs ages 14 and
older. Five members from our CERT team (Pat Palmer, Tim Mullis, Mike Clements, Heidi Staub and Lee Hite) provided emergency medical assistance for the event. The event
received generous support with food from Chick-fil-A.
On this evening 540 events from around the world came together to host Night to Shine for approximately 90,000 honored guests through the support of 175,000 volunteers! It's an amazing
experience for the guests and the volunteers!
Mike Clements pauses for a picture with
Chick-fil-A ‘s Princes Cow.
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Do Not Unsubscribe – Never!
from suspicious, offensive or unfamiliar Emails. Completing that action
finishes the final profiling effort by the criminal hacker and proves you are
vulnerable to a social engineering attack. Instead, mark as junk or spam
often provided by your email provider. If that is not an option, just
delete and move on. Of course, unsubscribe if you are familiar with or trust
the source.
The federal CAN SPAM Act mandates marketers offer a way out of unwanted emails. A law
legitimate companies take seriously, but not the cyber criminals.
Phishing emails began long before the term Fake News was popularized. By 2001 emails were
deliberately authored to offend you to arouse an emotion in an effort to cause a reply or
unsubscribe, which narrowed a large list of emails down to those owned by real people. Email
content often focuses on derogatory information about a political candidate, religious belief, sexual
orientation or an ethnic sector. Eventually email and social media surveys became a useful
personal information collection tool for the hacker.
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Are You Still Using Flash – STOP!
Adobe is finally planning to kill off Flash, aka Shockwave Flash
Player, once and for all. Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari have all
been blocking Flash over two years, but Adobe is now planning to
remove support by the end of 2020. The Flash Player by itself
represents no danger. However, it is built in such a way that makes it
simple to convert the software into a loophole for malicious program
installs or back-doors for unauthorized access.
What To Do With That Found USB Thumb Drive
Originally designed to test computer’s vulnerability to an
electrostatic discharge a user might generate from walking
on carpet, the device can kill a computer. When used on
unprotected equipment, the USB Killer instantly and
permanently disables the target hardware.
Naturally, a person finding a USB stick may decide to
investigate the device in an effort to locate the owner.
BEST ADVICE – DON’T!
Instead, destroy or give it to authorities. Once inserted, the
kill stick will charge to about -200 Vdc or more in about 1-2
seconds and then release that energy back into the
computer, damaging the electronics.
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Become a Helpful Responder — Not a Helpless Bystander
Mass killings in the U.S. have escalated beyond anyone’s expectation. Such events place an unreasonable burden on the emergency medical response system. Because death from gunfire or bombing can occur in a few minutes from onset, professional first responders are often at a distance, unable to arrive in time to save lives.
The past decade’s increase in mass casualty events has prompted the collection of meaningful data on bystander intervention.
Detailed in Simon H. Okoth’s recent book titled Responding to Black Swans (2017), new information verifies that bystanders have saved more people in emergencies than has been previously reported.
Until just now, the only information available about bystander intervention was from large-scale drills and exercises, not from actual disasters; consequently, earlier results have been inappropriately rationalized.
The black swan metaphor arose when, in past centuries, Western Europeans mistakenly thought black swans did not exist. “When I see a black swan” came to have the same meaning as “when pigs fly.” After the 2008 economic crisis, financial writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb invoked the metaphor to label any unanticipated event with shocking and far-reaching consequences.
So-called “Black Swans” inspire debate over why warning signs were overlooked or ignored. Unfortunately, the unpredictable nature of Black Swans makes them nearly unpreventable.
Common sense teaches that we can’t prepare for every scenario—especially a Black Swan.
But we can establish principles and protocols to be better prepared for the unexpected.
The need to have a better-trained population for emergency response was so well understood in 2006 that the government included bystanders in disaster response scenarios. President George W. Bush signed the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA), expecting to train and engage non-professional first responders (ordinary citizens). The PKEMRA goals have not been fully realized.
Emergency public safety agencies are struggling to maintain adequate staffing; for example, a shortage of paramedics in the U.S. puts the aging American population at risk.
Planning anticipated this shortage, but, when emergency responders are deliberately ambushed with gunfire, people understandably become reluctant to seek a career in emergency services. Meanwhile, senior paramedics and EMTs are retiring, often without adequate replacements.
FEMA recently began publishing this stat: “In 95% of all emergencies, the victim or bystander provides immediate assistance first.”
A surprise, has a major effect,
often inappropriately rationalized.
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Recent scholarly studies report important findings; for instance, a CPR study found that bystander-initiated CPR produces a 27% survival rate compared to a 13% survival rate when CPR is delayed until the arrival of EMS personnel.
In a report involving 619 survivors of the Haiti earthquake in 2010, it was found that 71% of the injured people said that a “friend, family, or neighbor” had pulled them from the rubble. Professional rescue forces were responsible for saving fewer than 1%.
In the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, volunteers helped rescue more than 800 people, but, because these bystanders did not have disaster response training, more than 100 of them suffered mortal injuries.
Untrained bystanders can be dangerous to victims and to themselves. Various uncontrolled arterial bleeds can become fatalities in under 5 minutes. Launched in 2015, the Stop the Bleed campaign grew from the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and was designed to train non-professional emergency responders. Such campaigns offer models for imitation.
Because the shortage of professionally trained emergency responders is expected to continue—and because the normal EMT response time can be beyond the time required to save a life—everyone is better served when a broad base of the population has experienced a level of emergency response training.
I personally encourage everyone to seek emergency response training. Learn to become a helpful responder, not a helpless bystander, by completing these five steps:
Become CPR and AED trained. Call your local fire department to inquire about their CPR and AED training. Most fire departments have a regular schedule for public education.
Attend fire extinguisher training. Many fire departments regularly conduct this training. If
you do not find local training, send me an email to be placed on a fire extinguisher training list. Send your email to [email protected].
Attend a Stop The Bleed class. Class listings are here. If you find no local class, send me
an email to be placed on a training list. Send your email to [email protected].
Attend a disaster medical training class. Learn to deal with mass casualties prior to the arrival of professional responders. Such classes are covered by the Community Emergency Response Team training (CERT) and by the American Red Cross.
Attend a disaster psychology class. Such classes teach skills necessary to function at the
scene of a chaotic disaster and are covered by CERT.
Lee Hite — April 2018
Sources:
Simon H. Okoth, Responding to Black Swans: Why Ordinary Citizens Matter
Bystander Intervention Prior to the Arrival of Emergency Medical Services
Journal of Emergency Medical Services
Huffpost
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Better Utility Shut-Off Signage
Water is squirting from the ceiling! You're in a panic looking for the main water shut-
off. It's an emergency! Does the baby sitter know how and where to shut off the water?
Knowing the location for utility shut-offs prior to the emergency will save precious time for
you, the baby sitter, the fire department and may reduce damage cost.
The fire department recommends labeling all emergency shut-offs with easy to read
signage. Printing and posting shut-off signs displayed below makes a fun project for kids or
grandkids and teaches them the locations for each. Good signage also minimizes the
mistake of turning off the wrong valve.
Download ready made signage from www.911ready.org/utility_signage.htm
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If You Turn Off the GAS
NEVER Turn it Back On!
Call the gas company or a professional for that task!
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Resources and Documents
911Ready Everyday Emergencies
Signup for Mason CERT membership
Map to Mason CERT meetings
Signup for Warren County CERT membership
Map to Warren County CERT meetings
Warren County CERT Twitter
Warren County CERT Facebook
FEMA Emergency Management Institute - Independent Study Program
Communications Band Plan
Best Practices for Talking over Two-Way Radio
How to Program a Two-Way Radio Using a *.csv file with the CHIRP Program
Tri-State Disaster Volunteer Network
Donate Responsibility (How to help after a disaster)
Useful apps from the National Library of Medicine at the NIH
Warren County, OH—Access and Functional Needs Registry
Say Something! Everyone has a story somewhere. What's yours? Personal experiences using your CERT training are highly valued as a teaching example for others. Let us know how you use your knowledge at home, on vacation, at work or out shopping. We seldom deploy for large events because they are few and far between. However, your knowledge is used in some way everyday. Tell us how you do that! Send to Lee Hite, [email protected], 513-240-1129 C
City of Mason CERT Officers
President ………………… Patrick Palmer, KM1WTF, [email protected], 513-256-1501 C
Vice President…………… Lee Hite, K8CLI, [email protected], 513-240-1129
Past President ………….. Tim Mullis, KD8USR, 513-222-4528
Director of Finance……… Heidi Staub
Technology Director…….. Michael Kramer, KD8WFE
Warren County CERT Officers
President .......................................... Curtis Helton, [email protected], (513) 465-7601 C
Vice President .................................. Tom Schauf, KD8WXQ, [email protected]
Public Information Officer………….... Patrick Palmer, KM1WTF, 513-256-1501 C
Liaison .............................................. Dave Astles, 937-271-3227
Treasurer .......................................... Karl DeBord, KD8WXT, 513-379-3755 C
Safety Officer……………………..…. Tim Mullis, KD8USR, 513-222-4528
Logistics, Website and Technology.. Lee Hite, K8CLI, [email protected], 513-240-1129