SF Neighborhood Emergency Response Team

Living in San Francisco, there are certain realities that everyone must deal with - the large Asian community, the fog, and of course, Earthquakes. That being the case, we ran across a booth at the Red Bull Race in the Marina a few weeks ago advertising for the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (or NERT). This is a free training program that prepares individuals to help themselves, their familes and neighbors in the event of a disaster. The training is a series of 6 classes that takes approximately 20 hours to complete. It encompasses earthquake awareness to light search and value, to terrorism awareness. Being a paranoid NY transplant, I think I'm going to try to go through the training - because you never know. Visit www.sfgov.org/sffdnert for more information.