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Emergency Services
Coordinating Agency
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OUR MISSION: To coordinate and assist the Emergency Services Coordinating Agency member cities
to be better prepared for disaster through mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities.
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News
November 17, 2011 - Vickie Fontaine Receives Associate Emergency Manager (AEM) Certification
ESCA's Vickie Fontaine was one of the twelve candidates approved by the IAEM USA-Certification Commission to receive the Associate Emergency Manager (AEMSM) credential. The AEMSM designates a high honor of professional achievement available from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), which has in its membership more than 4,500 emergency managers representing local, state, and federal government; private industry; and military emergency managers.
The new class of AEMSM's joins over 1,723 other emergency managers who have been recognized for certification by IAEM since January, 1993.
Commission, Requirements
IAEM administers the program for the profession, and policy decisions and judgments are made by a Commission of respected professionals in the field. The USA-CEM® Commission met in August 2011 and approved applicants who successfully completed an extensive credentials package to include references, emergency and general management training, a management essay and a written examination. The management essay requires respondents to submit a response to a scenario they might face while fulfilling emergency management responsibilities.
To maintain certification, AEMSM recipients must submit additional training and contributions to the professional every five years.
October 27, 2011 - Congratulations to our new CERT Graduates!
They’ve Been CERT-ified
Brier, Washington (October 27, 2011) — On October 27th, ESCA graduated 24 students from the Fall 2011 CERT program. One more student will be eligible to graduate once he completes a make-up class with the
Spring 2012 class which begins on January 12, 2012. There were approximately 20 “victim” role players from the Boy Scouts, AST Zombies, and many individuals that just want to have fun.
Students included: Carol Brickel, David Brickel, Michele Bullock, Brooke Casipit, Anthony Chappele, Jamie Clos, Danny Daniels, Chris Erdman, Julie Grant, Stan Grzech, Jonathan Hatch, Wendy Hatch, Karen Hunter, Ali Johnson, Evan Johnson, Drew Knight, Sonja Knight, Scott McNeil, Tinia Miller, Larry Miller, Carol Richards, Gordon Richards, Edmund Tee, Robert Whidbey, and Katrina Zuccaro.
ESCA offers the CERT program three times during the year. The next class will be in January 2012.
Former CERT graduates are welcome to attend classes as refreshers or to participate in the ongoing training opportunities offered through the CERT Leader volunteer program.
For additional information about ESCA programs, check out our contact information on the 'About' page.
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Putting on a CERT class - from the Introducton to CERT to the CERT Final - takes the time and efforts of many people. This incudes:
- The students who participate in the 24-hours of training
- The volunteer instructors
- The Firefighters who teach fire suppression.
It also includes all those people who come to be "victims" so that the CERT students have someone to rescue. For this, we thank the various Scout troops who have helped us over the years, graduates from previous CERT classes who come back to play, the AST Zombies, and the variety of othe people who get dragged into the insanity.
In addition, a successful CERT Final needs all the support people who provide things such as:
Exercise safety, oversight, and coordination
Helpful hints to CERT students
Radio communications
Moulage (the gory make-up)
Photos courtesy of Tom DeBartolo of the AST Zombies.
The following photos are courtesy of Luis Moscoso.
