2024 Santa Clara County CERT Skills Day
130 CERT volunteers from around Santa Clara County gathered on
Saturday, April 20, 2024 at the Sunnyvale Community Center to practice
their skills.
They were joined by 50 instructors and staff, and 40 BSA scouts and
scout parents acting as “victims,” for a total of over 200 people.
Use the arrow keys or your mouse to browse through the pictures from
this event, click the play button at the top right to see a slide show,
or scroll left or right to skip to a section of interest. You can also
jump directly to any one of our skill areas:
Disaster Preparedness,
Triage,
Head-to-Toe Assessments,
Splinting and Bandaging,
Damage Assessments, or
Search and Rescue.
Check-In and Briefing
Participants checked in and were greeted with coffee, juice, and breakfast
foods, courtesy of donations from Costco and FoodMaxx. They got a welcome
from the mayor of Sunnyvale and a briefing before the skills practice
began.
Check-in table, organized by Resilient Los Altos
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Name badge table
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Debrief of the check-in staff after everyone had arrived
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Cole Cameron (Campbell), serving breakfast
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Participants enjoying breakfast
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Lt. Daniel Moskowitz, Sunnyvale OES Coordinator, welcoming the crowd
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Klein, welcoming the crowd
Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS
Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS
Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS
County CERT program managers presenting an award
Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS
Left to right: Robert Maitland, Mountain View CERT PM; Gracie Hernandez, County Fire CERT PM;
Daniel Moskowitz, Sunnyvale CERT PM; Steve Roth, outgoing County CERT Leadership Team chair;
Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Klein; Sunnyvale City Council Member Linda Sell;
Victoria Bebee, Los Altos Hills CERT PM; Andrew Young, Gilroy CERT PM
Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS
Left to right: Capt. Dzanh Le, Sunnyvale DPS; Sunnyvale City Council Member Linda Sell;
Steve Roth, outgoing County CERT Leadership Team chair; Chief Phan Ngo, Sunnyvale DPS;
Lt. Daniel Moskowitz, Sunnyvale DPS
Lt. Daniel Moskowitz, Sunnyvale DPS
Debrief at the end of the day
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Left to right: Gracie Hernandez, medical instructor; Chuck Rader, event logistics;
John Mori, medical instructor; Colin Tanner, medical instructor; Mark Meyers, medical instructor;
Wendi Zuccaro, medical instructor
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Moulage
Scouts from several different local troops were decorated with fake wounds
and blood (“moulage”) to act as victims in the medical and search skill
areas.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Norma Amaro, Sunnyvale DPS
Norma Amaro, Sunnyvale DPS
Norma Amaro, Sunnyvale DPS
Norma Amaro, Sunnyvale DPS
Our talented moulage team. Left to right: Judy Schini (lead),
Crystal Oseguera, Norma Amaro, Kathy Hays, Diane Nikfar, Jacque
Yamaguchi
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Disaster Preparedness
Participants attended a refresher talk on disaster preparedness, following
Campbell’s “Be Ready, Be Prepared” program. Many preparedness resources
were on display for the participants. More details on the program are
available on
CampbellCERT.org.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Tim Shaughnessy, Campbell CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Triage
Participants practiced evaluating survivors in a mass casualty situation
and determining which ones to treat first, to do the greatest good for
the greatest number.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Head-to-Toe Assessment
Participants got a demonstration of head-to-toe assessment techniques, and
then practiced doing assessments on each other.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Damage Assessment
Participants looked at pictures and descriptions of damaged buildings and
got practice evaluating, recording, and reporting their damage levels.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Group Photos
Pictures taken of the whole group, and the attendees from some specific
cities, at the end of the event.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Saratoga CERT
Chuck Rader, Saratoga CERT
Sunnyvale CERT
Norma Amaro, Sunnyvale DPS
South County CERT
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Neil Katin managed the radio communications among the staff, and kept
us all on schedule.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Derek Coker (medical lead, San Jose) and Hugo Penafiel
(search and rescue lead, Mountain View)
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Chuck Rader (logistics lead, Saratoga) and Victoria Bebee
(medical instructor, Los Altos Hills)
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
Ron Zuccaro (photographer, San Jose), injured (?) for the second
year in a row
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT
The Canada geese enjoying the pond were an attractive sight, but they
left us many presents to carefully avoid.
Ron Zuccaro, San Jose CERT