Contact Van Schoen at van.schoen@tamarac.org
Broward – Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
CERT is a community-based organization of residents who learn how to take emergency response actions in safe ways until the professional emergency responders can respond. These citizens learn how to work in a coordinated manner caring for those citizens within their community affected by a disaster. Broward Communities have trained over 3000 CERT’s throughout Broward County in disaster preparedness, disaster medical services, fire suppression, light search and rescue, disaster communications, disaster psychology and terrorism. The program is part of the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) initiative to train residents for emergencies.
Most people are not prepared to deal with emergencies. Whether due to disaster or encountered in everyday life, they may experience problems. After a major emergency, residents will need to assist their neighbor. Unfortunately, without properly training residents can expose themselves to potential injury and even death.
In the aftermath of a major disaster such as a hurricane, emergency crews are quickly overwhelmed, causing delays of hours or even days. For these reasons, Communities throughout Broward County offer the CERT training courses.
Broward County CERT Program Coordinator Information can be found in the below table.
In the event you do not receive a reply please reach out to van.schoen@tamarac.org, include the City you reside in.
CERT Meetings are held virtually until further notice on the 4th Tuesday of every month at 2 P.M.
| Tamarac CERT Van Schoen, Program Manager Tamarac Fire Rescue Van.schoen@Tamarac.org Tamarac CERT FCABC Chair 2022 | Cooper City CERT Donna Maksymowich-Waskiewicz coopercitycert@bellsouth.net FB- Cooper City | Coral Springs/Parkland CERT Joe Chalom Program Manager Coral Springs/Parkland Fire Department jchalom@coralsprings.org www.coralspringscert.org |
| Coconut Creek CERT Stevenson Jean-Louis Coconut Creek Fire Rescue sjeanlouis@coconutcreek.net | Davie CERT Heath Meyer, Battalion Chief Davie Fire Rescue hmeyer@davie-fl.gov http://daviecert.org/ | Deerfield Beach CERT Carol Sjursen CSjursen@bellsouth.net Deerfield Beach CERT |
| Ft. Lauderdale CERT Shane Simcox Ft. Lauderdale Fire Rescue ssimcox@fortlauderdale.gov | Margate CERT Fire Chief Lorenzo Margate Fire Department rlorenzo@margatefl.com Margate CERT | Miramar CERT Romeo Lavarias Miramar Fire Rescue rblavarias@miramarfd.org |
| Pembroke Pines CERT Sargent James Henry Pembroke Pines Police jhenry@ppines.com PPines.CERT | Plantation CERT Deputy Chief Joel Gordon Plantation Fire Department jgordon@psd.plantation.org Plantation CERT | Sunrise CERT Miguel Ascasruntz Sunrise Fire Rescue mascarrunz@sunrisefl.gov |
| Hollywood CERT Ronald Hady Rugged1RH@Yahoo.com | Weston CERT Chief Bill Fucci Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue William_Fucci@sheriff.org FB – Weston CERT | Pompano Beach CERT Krystal Aaron Pompano Beach Fire Rescue Krystal.Aaron@copbfl.com Pompano Beach CERT |
Last updated on February 10th, 2022 at 04:21 pm