Welcome to Schoolcraft County CERT

We need CERT members to sign up for the "Vietnam Wall" that will be taking place Thursday July 24 through Sunday 27. This will be held at the Marina and we will need at least 12 people, 24/7 during this event. We expect other community groups to be invloved as well. Contact Agneta Billings, CERT Coordinator at 906-399-1509 or monnalla@yahoo.com

Check out the Prepare and Emergency Supply Kit & Homeland Security Advisory System print out here!

Roll Call All CERT & MRC Members!

Welcome to the new CERT website serving the citizens of Schoolcraft County and the surrounding area. Take a moment and check out our site. Our site contains a lot of useful information that you should know in the event of a local disaster or emergency.

CERT is alive and well within our County with over 30 current members trained, equipped, and ready to go.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), using the model created by the Los Angeles City Fire Department, began promoting nationwide use of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept in 1994. Since then, CERTs have been established in hundreds of communities. We have a number of CERT teams throughout the UP.

CERT training promotes a partnering effort between our emergency services and the people that they serve. The goal is for our emergency personnel to train members of our neighborhoods, community organizations, or workplaces in basic response skills. Our CERT members are then integrated into the emergency response capability for our area.

If a disaster overwhelms or delays our community's professional response, our CERT members can assist their family members, neighbors, and others by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned during their CERT training. These skills can save and sustain lives following a disaster until help arrives. CERT skills also apply to daily emergencies.

We are now beginning to plan our next training session. If you want more information on our local CERT training, please contact Agneta Billings at (906) 644-2343 or (906) 399-1507 or email. To contact Sabrina, the assistant coordinator call (906) 280-8286 or email.

Check out minutes from our last Citizen Corp Council meeting.

The new MRC chair/coordinator is Cindy Thome

Check out our new message board here

Watch the Citizen Corps video here

For references please see the Emergency Management Institute website.