what can you do as nerts, as a nert team? rope it off, cordon it off. what else? good, runner to the fire department. do you have the tools and skills to extinguish a major fire? no, you don't. notify the erd, evacuate -- assist the fire department if we get there, but don't become a victim. smell of gas. what can you do as nerts? turn off the gas. and what are the 3 situations when you want to shut the gas off? smell the gas, something -- oh, yeah, wheels are spinning and major building collapse. muni -- overhead muni wire, flopping around. what can you did as nerts? always assume all electricity is live and hot. so what can you do as nerts? cordon off the area, tell people to stay back. small fires reported in the rear of a building, what can you do as nerts? if it's still burning that small fire is now a very large fire. so all you can do is really notify the erd, evacuate the area, assist the fire department. five buildings have suffered heavy damage -- heavy damage, kind of a clue there. three of the buildings have collapsed. what can you do as nerts? not qui

there it is, a place for us to gather as nert members and there's our nert ics area. here is our structure. same kind of set up, sort of our version. command policy section, the planning group, they are up on top. then once things get rolling, you have your operations section, logistics section. here are our objectives on the nert team, figure out if it's big, if it's small, how do we keep track of what's going on? do we just remember it? are we going to rely on our computers, our pc's? no, we have to write it down the old-fashioned way. address, is there a fire, yes or no, damage, are there people injured, dead, can you get there. where, what, any sort of damage, are there people involved, can you get to it? here is a nert status sheet. basically if you send somebody out, you want to send the members' names, what time they went out, when they came back, what the assignment was, any comments, and if you have an incident number that would be nice. who is the safety person? we don't want to send people out, just hey, go do this. we want to keep track of it. if they don'

and the first thing we did because we are nert is encourage the nert training. the nert training works because it trains you to take care of yourself and can your family and be engaged with a wider neighborhood response to a disaster that happens in the city. and second of all, we encourage people to prepare a disaster kit. i'm sure you heard a lot but the buzz word is mitigation. there is a good reason because it's totally true. every person who has a kit for themselves and family mitigates the impact on themselves and their family and the resources in the neighborhood and the city and subsequent to a disaster it mitigates the impact on the city and how well we recover. it's an important thing that even if you can't get trained with the red cross or nert or other resource make sure you have a kit for yourself and family and a communication plan of how you will get in touch with each other after or days after or whatever. the next thing we did was we had meetings with erica and our local police chief kevin dylan and talked about safety issueses. we said, what ar

on the nert website you can see where all the nert staging areas are. and those are nert staging areas are out door spaces. those areas will not have to be inspected before we start setting up services there. or nert sets up services. the shelters have to be inspected. we have to stock them with cots and water and medical supplies and staff. that information is -- >> i wanted to remind you that the nert staging area is your neighbor's helping each other. and so they are not the place to go to show up with nothing to not help. they are the place where you go and say, what can i do. and how can i help? if you have a need you should let them know that. you are approaching your neighbors who had training and a conversation with each other. and that's our limitation and our strength. >> one. things you want to encourage people to do is do a map for your own neighborhood. there are resources that are not resource like nert. it's helpful to know if one neighbor was in the military and has lowgistic training or used to be a nert and had first aid training so yo

here is a nert status sheet. basically if you send somebody out, you want to send the members' names, what time they went out, when they came back, what the assignment was, any comments, and if you have an incident number that would be nice. who is the safety person? we don't want to send people out, just hey, go do this. we want to keep track of it. if they don't come back within a couple hours we have to send somebody to find them or at least checkup on them. if we don't know where they went and who they are, you have chaos. they might be hurt and they're going to stay hurt. we're going to roll on to disaster psychology. what does that mean? when people go through a disaster, their lives are wrecked. i saw this firsthand, i went down to help out with katrina thing in september. it's weird. because you are dealing with people that lost everything and it's kind of hard to imagine that if you haven't done it yourself. basically, you know, she's looking at her curtains here, she probably hand-stitched those things.

one of the things that when nert and your neighbors are nert that is the basis of training is to post a resource board where people can stick notes. your nert staging area the cites are on our website to get the know the neighbors who are trained and get trained to help build a krcritical mass. that's a place where people can stick notes on who's okay. >> out of area contact? >> as we discovered in katrina the out of area contacts are important for communication. because no one you couldn't call a new orleans area code it was not happening. he was able to reach myself in california and our aunt in dallas,texas on a land line. how many know their relatives phone numbers. i'm not meaning picking up your cell phone and clicking, mom. the red cross has a wallet card there is your emergency contact plan where you write down a land line number. we're discovering that text mess anning and e mails work. having the information in your son's back pack or your purse or the car in multiple places so you community with your out of state contact and through that you coordinate your reunionification

hey, nert team, nert volunteers. is anybody here? if you say let's call out, everyone is going to be calling out, hey, nert team. nobody can listen. hey, let's call out and give it a couple seconds, see if we can hear somebody. not only call out, make sure that you can listen, too. we want you to start your search from the top so if you go into the building, start from the top and then work your way back. we want you to do a left or right handed search pattern, meaning when you enter a room or a building, we want you to find a wall and stay on that wall. we want to have somebody stay on that wall because that wall will show you the way out. mark each individual unit so the x that i was talking about, if you go into a multi-unit apartment building, you with want to do it on each unit. so i go into this apartment, you're going to do a slash, go into the apartment, do your search, when you come out and complete the x. again at the top is the time that you entered. they want you to write the time that you leave also. so you would cross o

worked closely with both nert and d.e.m. to accomplish this. it covers all costs to provide this additional training as well as background checks funding and any additional materials and supplies that would be needed. the scope of the grant is limited to the enhanced disaster corps training and could not be used to complement or supplant any current training. if you have any additional questions, i'm more than happy to assist with them and also have representatives from nert and d.e.m. to answer anything. thank you. commissioner avalos: this grant will be for 18 months? >> yes. contingent upon the passing of the california budget. but it is federal homeland security funding. it's not necessarily directly related to the budget issues at the state level. commissioner avalos: in terms of longevity of funding for this beyond that time, is there a long-term plan about how this type of service will be continued? >> management will be if you can sess isful incorporate into our efforts to seek grant funding for the position. probably through additional

flat surface is a little uncomfortable and he's not going to stay in this position, so since you're nert people and you always work in teams and you always have your manual with you and two or thre manuals and slide them under hi shoulders, or you could take a shoe off and put it under the shoulders and make its so the head flops back a little bit an keeps the air way open and whil you attend to this and he's bleeding and not breathing and now he's bleeding. so direct pressure. still bleeding -- put another dressing on and you can hold it in place with a bandage and if he wakes up hold on to this or you're going to die. he tends to hold on nice and tight and it's still bleeding. well, let's find this pulse point in here and we will push against the bone there and it will slow the blood and it's al good and bleeding stopped and hold on to that for a while and make sure the bleeding doesn't reoccur, and this guy ought toe a doctor and it's real bad and in fact we can tell him to see doctor and he has sweat and be beading up on the forehead and looking pale and what do we do for someone who

that's an nert volunteer. never fight a fire if it's a large fire. large is over your head. if you are scared and it's too big, it's too large for you. if it's spread beyond where it started and blocking our escape route and you are unsure how to use an extinguisher. there are 4 types of fire it's on the label. on the front. down here. water type extinguisher it's a chrome big thing that holds 2-1/2 gallons of water. 30-40 feet away is the maximum, you want to get closer. flood it with water you can put your thumb over the tip and it fans it out. dry chemicals, inside here this is a bc this is one you might have in your car. it's not used on wood, paper, classic fires only on flammable liquid and electrical fires that's what you use in your car. if will have a pressure gauge. metal handle and it will have a good sized rubber nozzle and the label and all that will tell you the fire it's for. pass, pull the pin out. aim the nozzle. squeeze the lever. don't squeeze it and class 6 this happens. don't shoot the instructor in the foot because when you hold it, hold it here and don

the nert is excellent program for general training and i advise you all to sign up 558-3456. have training programs constantly. >> earthquake preparedness. before the earthquake, retrofit your house, get your supplies. after the earthquake, have your supplies and be willing to live for maybe a week with no one else but you and your neighbors the stores won't be open, they won't have any power, the gas stations aren't going to be punching gas, they won't have any power. they say 72 hours, that's optimistic. >> so let me recap this. there are three sort of -- ther are three areas of earthquake issues we need to talk about today. the one is how do we prepare to reduce the impacts of an earthquake before it happens? the second the how do we respon to an earthquake? that's a tiny little area but a huge problem. what do we do for the first two weeks. it's dramatic but a small piece of it. the third one is how do we recover? what is the recovery program? how are we going to rebuild. everybody looks at the two week period after the earthquake and devote all their time, money an energ

and then the -- the fire department nert website, we urge you to go there. the 21 remaining council meetings, just to give you a preview is friday squll 16 and friday october 15. so you could put those on your calendars. those are probably not going to change. wanted to give you a let's headsup on that. that's the end of my update. is there any discussion or questions by any members of the council? seeing none, are there any questions or -- i'm sorry statements by members of the public? seeing none, we're going to move on. but instead of item four, i'm going to ask to go to item five for technical reasons. and so item five is a c.i.s.n. shiekh shake alert, a warning system in california. we asked richard allen from the seismological department to come. just to give us an overview. dr. allen. >> can i stand up? >> we need you talk -- >> thank you. >> thank you for the invitation to come and talk to you. develop methodologies to try to get warnings out to people before they start to kneel the shaking in an earthquake. when i say warnings, we're talking about a