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First Responder Chem-Bio Handbook
First Responder Chem-Bio Handbook
by Ben N. Venzke (Editor)
This is a super book! It doesn't drone on and on about the composition and history of Chemical and Biological Weapons - it is indeed a First Responder's Handbook providing initial assessment, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, decontamination and precautions.
 
Human Elements Training for Emergency Services, Public Safety and Disaster Personnel: An Instructional Guide to Teaching Debriefing, Crisis Intervention and Stress Management Programs
by Jeffrey T. Mitchell, George S. Everly
A very useful guide for teaching or researching stress in the emergency services, the text presents suggested minimal qualifications for instructors who teach stress topics. The text also provides many useful hints for adult education and has detailed teaching outlines for various length stress courses.

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Hillcrest Citizens Emergency Response (SAFE) Team graduates 14
Back: Tilly Hermandi, Jeff Sample, Ann & Fred Zeise, Susi Gunarsa, Kathy Kuhne, Dana Arbaugh, Brian McCracken, and Americo (of the Milpitas Fire Dept.)
Front: Yea-Cheng Wang, Gunawan Ali-Santosa, Tina Pham, Agnes & Bethany Eytchison, and Scott DeMars

1-888-723-2624
AT&T wants to out if there is an outage in your area. For any outage affecting more than 200 customers, you will hear a 60-second status report, including the estimated time until restoration of telephone service.

1 (800) PGE-5000 or 1 (800) 743-5000
Before calling PG&E about a power outage, check to see if other neighbors are affected. This would confirm if an outage has occurred in just your residence or within the neighborhood area.

American Red Cross
Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Emergency preparedness, blood drive info, and more.

Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation
A collaborative effort among local governments, the private sector and academia. Its main focus is to limit loss of life, injury and property damage from natural disasters, and to accelerate economic recovery, through implementation of mitigation measures.

Community Preparedness Website Project
Community-based organizations are often the best resource for a particular population. They bring a level of expertise and awareness of the community that is not often possible with the larger, traditional emergency service providers.

The Connection
Community Disaster Preparedness Newsletter.

CPR: You Can Do It!
Please try to attend a class to learn CPR correctly, but in a crisis, this page would serve. A printable CPR pocket guide is also available on this page.

Crisis Training
Learning CPR can be fun, empowering, and life saving! Our classes are activity centered utilizing a manikin for every two learners. Classes are available for all ages and abilities.

Enviro Safetech
We are used by businesses and government to take command of obligations and requirements for meeting a full spectrum of hazardous material, waste and occupational health and safety regulations. CERT backpack supplies. 2455 Autumnvale Drive, Unit B, San Jose, 941-9393.

Free Community Education from the Red Cross
How to get your family prepared for an earthquake, a fire, or even a power outage. In both English and Español.

A Guide to Organizing Neighborhoods for Preparedness, Response and Recovery
This guide was designed to help you organize your neighborhood, using resources in your community, while avoiding the usual pitfalls and/or reinventing the wheel.

Information for Pet Owners
If you evacuate your home, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR PETS BEHIND! Pets most likely cannot survive on their own; and if by some remote chance they do, you may not be able to find them when you return. FEMA.

Navy Online First Aid Course
Correspondence course credit available for those in specified occupations - government workers, JROTC, etc.

Operation Liberty Shield
A comprehensive national plan designed to increase protections for America's citizens and infrastructure while maintaining the free flow of goods and people across our border with minimal disruption to our economy and way of life.

S.A.F.E. - Strategic Actions For Emergencies
An emergency awareness program created to save lives and reduce property damage by training individuals to initiate mitigation activities before or immediately following an emergency.

Stanford University Blood Center
Please call 1-888-723-7831 to make an appointment to bolster our blood supply throughout the fall season.

State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
What to do before, during and after an emergency situation.

One of the City's Emergency Caches. There's one in each section of Milpitas.

Apple Store

The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook
The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook
by Kathleen Handal M.D., Elizabeth H. Dole
A comprehensive guide to administering first aid in emergency situations, based on course materials used by Red Cross chapters across the US. The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by 175 line drawings.
 
Living Safe in an Unsafe World : The Complete Guide to Family Preparedness
Living Safe in an Unsafe World : The Complete Guide to Family Preparedness
by Kate Kelly, Randall C. Duncan (Introduction)
The American Red Cross believes that everyone should be prepared for any possible disruption in their daily lives that may be caused by disasters, from a home fire to something that affects the entire community. The content of this book can help you and your family be more prepared and safer should disaster strike.

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