CERT Basic Training Class to be offered in July

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Jefferson County's CERT, the local volunteer Community Emergency Response Team, is ready to onboard new members with training this month. Sessions will take place Tuesday and Thursday evenings for three weeks (July 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 31), with a graduation disaster-simulation exercise on Saturday, Aug. 2. CERT is a FEMA-sponsored, state-supported and locally run training program that prepares residents to help themselves, their family and their neighbor