SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – The Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management held a training Friday for those who want to help in case of a disaster.
The session at the Public Safety Center in Springfield marked OEM’s first community emergency response training (CERT) of the year. People learned how to help in a disaster on both the mental and physical levels, including calming techniques and basic first aid.
“As we all know from the Joplin tornado, people that – law enforcement, medical, they’re going to be responding to the bigger areas,” said CERT team member Christina Verge. “And if you’ve got just a small neighborhood that needs help taken care of, we want them to be able to have their basic skills to be able to do that, to help until the emergency people can get there.”
What participants learned
The training covered how to apply a tourniquet, splinting, direct pressure, and how to take care of a burn…