Teen CERT Exercise Held at JHS

Jamestown (CSi) The fourth year of Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Jamestown High School held its final exercises on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Approximately 130 students of the freshmen class participated in the disaster exercise.

Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist said on a recent Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, that with the CERT program running four years, all students in JHS have participated in the program.

The students acted as the responders during a mock bleacher collapse scenario at the Jamestown High School Gym, with JHS drama students acting as victims.

During the exercise, students used their learned response skills under the direction of local emergency response agencies and school staff.

Before the exercise, there was a brief graduation ceremony with the students receiving their Teen CERT diplomas.

Two exercises were held and graduation ceremonies.

Photos by Thomas Ravely