Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department
4100 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, Virginia 22030
703-246-3801, TTY 703-385-4419 and 703-385-1687
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fire

09/13/2005

Community Emergency Response Team Training for Businesses

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department and the Fairfax County Citizens Corps will conduct Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training exercises for a business. The training for more than two-dozen employees of McLean-based BearingPoint, Inc., one of the world’s largest management consulting and systems integration firms, will take place Saturday, September 17 and Saturday, 24, 2005, at the Department’s Fire and Rescue Academy, 4600 West Ox Road, Fairfax, Virginia.

Employees from BearingPoint’s Homeland Security and Intelligence practice will participate in the 30-hour Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) standard course designed to train citizens to be better prepared to assist emergency personnel during disasters, both natural and manmade. A final training exercise, to be held later this year, will evaluate an individual’s ability to respond and use their skills to assess structural damage, locate, treat, and rescue victims until first responders arrive on the scene.

Since January of this year, approximately 100 county residents have taken CERT training, but the exercise with BearingPoint marks the first time training will be provided specifically to a county business.

The effort coincides with National Preparedness month. For more information visit www.Ready.gov and click on the National Preparedness Month banner.

Fairfax County is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in all county programs, services and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request. For information, call 703-246-3801 and TTY 703-285-4419.