[Community-service] emergency and disaster volunteers

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi Everyone,

I’ve considered taking some type of emergency response training.
There are several training opportunities through my county, fairfax county.

Has anyone taken training like this and used it? If so, what parts were difficult to do with limited or no vision? I would guess that  searching for people would be hard to do. What accomodations did you have?

I’m talking about experiences to train for natural disasters, helping victims, or any medical work. 
For instance working in a fire department, medical reserve core, or community emergency response team. I don’t think we can be parametics because you have to read the screens of medical equipment such as the electrocardiogram, but we could provide first aid or cpr or maybe help in some other way.

I’m going to also ask around if anyone in our chapter has taken CERT training or worked for the volunteer fire department in the office or helped the police. 

Thanks.

Ashley
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