Photos, Podcasts and Videos

Photos!

Congratulations to our 2023 CERT Basic Training graduates who continued their training to be sworn in as Disaster Service Workers during the City Council Meeting February 7, 2024. Welcome to the DSW team!

The 2023 Fall Basic Training concluded with a great drill. Congratulations to all the graduates! Visit the photos here.

Check out the  Spring 2023 Basic Training class photos here.

Our Videos

• Got a few minutes? Check out our Lunch & Learn series for a bite of helpful information.
• Our Senior Center book program and other community work, explained.
• Secure Your Space Project at the Boys and Girls Club in Martinez (more about that event)
• Cal Fire thanks CERT Volunteers (including two from Martinez) for staffing a call center for the SCU Lightning Complex Fire (Sept. 2020)

Podcasts

National Public Radio has a series called The Big One: Your Survival Guide.

When The Big One hits it’ll take under two minutes for more than 10 million Southern Californians to lose internet, power, and a sense of security. Host Jacob Margolis and Producer Misha Euceph take you on a journey to understand what the catastrophic earthquake will mean for Los Angeles, the U.S., and the world. This is what you need to know to survive.

FEMA offers several interesting audio podcasts.

The FEMA Podcast is an audio series available to anyone interested in learning more about the agency, hearing about innovation in the field of emergency management, and listening to stories about communities and individuals recovering after disasters.

We’ve featured a few of their PrepTalks in past posts:

• What We “Know”
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Social Capital in Disaster Mitigation and Recovery

Remember the big Northridge quake? Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) offers a series from 2019 called The Big One.

When The Big One hits it’ll take under two minutes for more than 10 million Southern Californians to lose internet, power, and a sense of security. Host Jacob Margolis and producer Misha Euceph take you on a journey to understand what the catastrophic earthquake will mean for Los Angeles, the U.S. and the world. This is what you need to know to survive.

Spotify’s PARCast has a series on Natural Disasters.

Tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes…these are real-life monsters. We like to think we’re prepared for a catastrophe. But time and time again, Mother Nature proves us wrong. Each week, Natural Disasters examines the earth’s biggest catastrophes that took countless lives, destroyed communities, and toppled civilizations. Natural Disasters is a Parcast Original. New episodes available every Thursday.

More Videos

FEMA’s YouTube channel also has lots of helpful information.