PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office has announced that 10 Port Angeles High School students have completed Community Emergency Response Team training through the school’s My Preparedness Initiative.
The students, part of the medical careers program, took classes on first aid, search and rescue techniques, disaster preparedness, terrorism awareness and other subjects.
To successfully complete the course the students took a written examination and a practical exercise in the county’s “Rubble Room.”
The rubble room exercise required students to enter a darkened room that is filled with debris, downed wires and other simulated hazards and to locate and unknown number of injured people, categorize the severity of the injuries and then safely move the casualties to a medical treatment area.
The My Preparedness Initiative also adds a requirement that students pass their new skills on to at least six other people.
The CERT graduates are: Akira Connary, Hannah Heustis, Abigail Hjelmeseth, Sophie Houston, Emily Light, Marykate Napiontek, Emily Olson, Dency Patel, Kiley Stanard and Rhianna Bourassa-Stockdale.
