Fall 2026 CERT Basic Course — starts Thursday, September 10
Offered by the Bountiful Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Council and South Davis Metro Fire, this 6-week course offers classroom instruction, hands-on skills practice, and a mock disaster exercise.
- When: Thursday evenings 6:30–9:30 p.m. — Sept 10, 17, 24 & Oct 1, 8, 22
- Where: Fire Station #81 Headquarters, 255 South 100 West, Bountiful
- Mock disaster exercise: Saturday, Oct 24, 9:00 a.m., Bountiful Police Firing Range
- Cost: $60 (covers CERT basic supplies)
- To register (deadline Sept 3): call South Davis Metro Fire at 801-677-2400 or visit sdmetrofire.gov/how-do-i (click the CERT CLASS box)
For other questions, please contact CERTclasses@bountiful.gov
Bountiful CERT Basic training is your key to being ready to SAFELY HELP OTHERS in disasters and emergencies
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program teaches people to assist others following a disaster when professional responders are not available.
CERT is a nationwide program, run by individual communities, that puts the power of emergency response in the hands of average citizens. This 8-week course is taught by local instructors, and each class provides hands-on skills and invaluable practice! Use a fire extinguisher, bandage and splint injuries, find and transport the wounded, and so much more. Apply your skills in a mock disaster at the end of the course.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Disaster Awareness
- Disaster Communications
- Disaster Psychology
- Damage Assessment
- Fire Suppression
- Search and Rescue
- Transporting Victims
- Medical Skills
- Splinting Fractures
- Triage
- Treating Shock
- Hazardous Materials
- Terrorism Awareness
- CERT Organization
- Incident Command
Want to learn more about Bountiful CERT and the CERT program in general? Check out these resources!
This is the text book for CERT class. Explore the whole curriculum chapter by chapter with helpful graphics, checklists, and practice activities.
This video illustrates how CERT-trained people are trained to respond in a disaster.
PLEASE NOTE: In the Bountiful region, CERT is organized on a distributed basis among disaster response districts–rather than at the City level. Under this approach, CERT-trained people are valuable resources to district and area disaster response leaders, who assign them to specific situations that may require them to apply their training. (There is no concept of being “activated” as CERT. Rather, CERT-trained people are assigned, individually or as teams, to respond to situations, based on their training.)
CERT has a appendix manual of information about responding to specific types of disasters such as earthquakes, winter storms, flooding and landslides. Get the details here.
Have more questions about our CERT classes? Email the Course Coordinators – Emily Van Orman, Emajane Freckleton, Greg Meyer, and Greg Mortensen using the following link:
Have more questions about our CERT program in general?
Email Program Director, Carly Kenney, using the following link:
