JHS Teen CERT Drill, Graduation held May 2

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown High School, Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)  Disaster Drill Exercise & Graduation was held on Thursday morning, May 2, at the Jamestown High School Gymnasium.

These students have been learning how to respond and take care of themselves, their family and their neighbors in the event of a disaster.

This spring, 95 JHS freshmen students participated in the Teen CERT program.  These students have been learning how to respond and take care of themselves, their family and their neighbors in the event of a disaster.  This hands-on course has taught students about emergency preparedness, fire safety, medical triage, disaster medical, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and terrorism by professional emergency responders from Stutsman County.

As the ninth year of JHS Teen CERT comes to a close, these freshmen will participate in a disaster exercise where they will be acting as the responders during a simulated bleacher collapse scenario.  This will give each of them the opportunity to utilize the skills that they have learned throughout this 6-week program.  The event was overseen by personnel from various local emergency response agencies and school staff.  The JHS Drama students performed as the injured victims in the scenario.  Each of the Teen CERT students was  presented with Certificates of Completion in the graduation ceremony.