Response to Nevada Union high school students train to assist in face of emergency

Agustin Juarez
Period 1
11/30/17
Extra Credit article


This article informed us about a nevada school who had been teaching students what to do in the face of danger, the school has been teaching studens how to stabalize injuries. this program was called CERT short for Community Emergency response team, where for 20 hrs you will be taking apart in risk taking activities to learn how to help and aid in an emergency situation, the purpose of CERT is so that people arent just useless in an emergency sitiuations,they want to provide people with knowladge on how to help with any sort of injuries that do not require extreeme medical attention until experts arrive.   I believe that the concept of CERT is very good because it certain situations someone might need medical attention but we might not have the capability of attending them at that moment so therefore we need CERT to teach us how to handle these situations  while policemen and fire fighters focus on the more hurt victims. The article overall was very well rounded and tought me alot and i wish we could have that here at ETHS

Article responce - Calvin McCoy-Bmaberg

I think its a good idea to use social media because a lot of people now a days use social media everyday so i think its very smart that firefighters and  police should use facebook, instagram, youtube and twitter to see whats going on around the world and in there own neighborhood. I think the article is tryin to make sure people our safe in the envierment and if they are in danger they can alert someone like the police or saftey on campous or just in the neighborhood. I agree with the whole article because its trying to make ideas on how to keep people safer and quicker and just being noticfieyd if something is going down. If the police and firefighters start to do this they should make sure they have good security so by dont send false alarms.

5 Ways To Use Social Media For Better Emergency Response -Michael Abramson

The five ways that social media could be used to help emergency response are as follows. if they regularly monitor their web sights and social media then they could respond to the requests faster. this would work because then the people who need help will have a quick response and be helped faster. 

it would reach a wider audience because everyone is on the internet today it would help to get the word around faster so if there is an emergency it could help people avoid it and keep more people safe. the second reason is that they could rend and receive emergency alerts. in the digital age we can sent and receive messages in a matter of seconds imagine calling for help with the push of a button. the emergency services could monitor conversations so if someone is at risk of something then they could rush and help that person. situational awareness if they use the web for this the they could get a bigger picture of the incident and know what they are up against. the final way that social media could help emergency response is the people could collaborate with the first responders. this is good because then the people could tell them a better description on what is going down and if there are people in danger.

5 Ways To Use Social Media For Better Emergency Response - Natalie Vargas

People want the government response agencies to be more involved with social media for emergencies, like their web sites and social media networks. It also talks about how fast social media and apps in general get information faster than a TV news crew. Social media can help the government response agencies get a better view on how things are during a crisis and help them make a plan. The first reason why social media can improve emergency management is by being able to reach more people. The first reason is just saying that they would be able to contact a lot more people but some social medias are not to reliable, for example twitter, it gets overwhelmed whenever there is something major going on and the emergency responders won't always be able to communicate the situation out right away. The second reason is being able to make a two way emergency alerts. A two way emergency alert is helpful because it can send your specific location during a crisis. Monitoring the conversation is also another reason, this means that the officers who have a social media can also view what is being said in the community. Integrating data sources for situational awareness is a program that they can use when there is a situation ( only news related to the case would appear)  and they can view what is happening through social media but the downside of that is that bad guys can also view what is going on through the social media. Collaborating with responders is a big reason on how social media can help them because you can communicate with them and get help in any case. I do agree with the article because we use a lot of technology and most of our life is revolves around social media. It is easy to dial 911 but calling for help through social media might seem easier for some people because sometimes that is where we might be during an issue and since the app is open it might seem easier to call them from there.

Article Blog response (Trey Dawkins)

The article I chose to read and evaluate was the Nevada Union High School students learning and being trained on assistance in the face of an emergency. The article goes over how the program started by Chris Espedal who now works the safety and school climate coordinator for the Nevada County Superintendent of schools. He talks about CERT training was beneficial because students learn basic assistance to people who need help. Also important is to use the resources available to help and assure the injured that they don’t need to panic and they’ll be fine. Many students quote that the training is beneficial in the face of many tragedies going on in America and the world. The more recent events mentioned in the article were the attacks in Paris and the mass shooting in San Bernardino.

I agree with this article and the points made because CERT training should be implemented around the country and students should learn how to assist those in need. The world is a dangerous place now and the news are getting flooded with more and more terrorist attacks. The next generation of Americans should learn how to splint a broken bone or help someone suffering from anaphylactic shock. Even in scarier circumstances if a school is attacked or a family member goes down, a student should not need to panic and be able to care for that person until more trained paramedics and EMT’s arrive to finish the job.

One thing I wish the article could have added towards the end was to see if they were making strides to expand CERT training across Nevada schools, the west coast, and eventually the rest of the United States. That would be interesting because ETHS forces students to have at least one CTE credit. Why wouldn’t they make a student take and CERT class and have that type of helping the community credit? That could be beneficial in a society like ours.

Nevada High school By John Carr

This article discussed a program at a high school in Nevada, where twenty six students were taught how to stabilize injuries in an emergency situation.  The program they were taking part in was CERT, the Community Emergency Response Team it i s a 20 hour risk training which teaches students how to help and do the most they can in cases of emergencies. They want people to be able to be prepared and help people with minor injuries such as sprains or even brakes and give them a temporary bandage or splint out of the resources around, that will help until medical services get to the scene.

I believe the CERT program and training students is very beneficial because it certain situations there isn't enough man power to help everyone so this gives firefighters and police officers more resources to help with minor injuries while they focus on the more critical and major injuries. I think they also should've demonstrated how to check for broken bones and be able to tell the difference between the two.

Response to 5 ways to use social media for better emergency response

Over all the article was pretty well rounded and had a clear main point, the article started off by giving examples of ways social media is already being used to help aid emergencies around the world, the article then moved on to telling us ways we could use our social media to help aid emergency situations around the world. The articles main point was that we have so much technology now that can be and is already being used to help people in emergencies, for the most part i compleitly agree with the article because of all our social meida like twitter and instageam we can raise awearness for certain problems and emergencies around the world. The article was overall complete covering any questions a reader might have and gave multiple examples as to how we can use our social media to help others.

Police response online

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This article is showing how you can contact police/security on the internet.Also it shows how police can monitor things on the internet to catch criminals not only on social media but by montering things that they purchase . When people are on campus they can contact campus security by sending alerts online a lot of others are starting to do this also . If someone doesn't have a phone or for some reason the police are not answering they can use the internet to contact the police . There was a survey taken and 74% of people said they would expect the police to arrive within an hour if they ask for the police online .There is a lot of way for police to find people and to attend to things the internet is playing a bigger part in crime.

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The main point of this article is to inform people that you can contact the police in other ways if 911 calling is not working also crime is being stopped by by police online too.

3.I agree with police fighting against crime on internet trying to stop criminals by using the internet . I do not agree with people trying to contact the police on the computer I do not think this is reliable .Instead of people trying to contact on computer they can just pick up a phone and dial 911 and the response time is faster .In Evanston i'm not sure if we even have an online police contacter . I do think Evanston should look into this because maybe if someone does not have a phone they might have to use a computer .I would not contact the police on the computer only if it was my last option I would ,but this is good to know that police are getting more tech swavey .

NIPSTA Field Trip and the Driving Simulator

At the NIPSTA field trip on September 27th, 2017, there was a lot learned about what kind of training firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement, and public works employees go through to make sure their jobs are crisp and well done so they can keep the community safe. The whole organization is run by Jill Ramaker, who happens to be the first female executive director of NIPSTA which I thought was really cool and interesting; also that she is very well educated and qualified for her job.
During the trip, one area that really interested me was the first thing we ended up seeing first which was the driving simulator room. The simulator mimics the motion of an actual firetruck and has a full 180 degree view range. It really makes it realistic so that in a real life demo or training with an actually truck, the driver will be ready and know everything about his machine. Even cooler was that the simulator was attached to a pump system which you would see on the side of a fire truck. This I think is very important and needed in fire training because the water pump are important in putting out the fire but the driver must have some control over which pumps or valves need to be switched on or off, so there is that teamwork between firefighters in working together to get the job done quickly and efficiently.Preview attachment IMG_1504.JPG

Since 2001, when Northeastern Illinois Public Safety Training Academy known as NIPSTA opened its doors for the first time, this organization only had one executive director. Thirteen years later, Jill Ramaker became the first ever female second executive director. There she leads a huge agency that trains firefighters to a large multidisciplinary center that trains a variety of first responders. NIPSTA is an intergovernmental agency focused on developing and providing training programs that address the requirements of fire, police, EMS, public works, and hazardous material. Supported by over thirty agencies and located on twenty-one acres of land in Glenview, Illinois, it is among the largest training centers of its kind in the country and unique for its multidisciplinary and collaborative focus. It brings groups together with the intention of showing them how to respond together. It’s actually rare to have law enforcement and fire service engage in collaborative training like this, but that’s exactly what leads to a safer and more efficient response. Before NIPSTA, Ramaker started as a paramedic and emergency medical services lieutenant, spending many years as both an E.R nurse and EMS educator. She furthered her education returning to school and getting her masters degree in law. The NIPSTA fire academy hold a nine week curriculum which offers both inside and outside props. Firefighters get recruited by a selective fire department and are sent to NIPSTA. The $35,000 tuition is usually covered by the department.

NIPSTA is the acronym for Northern Illinois Public Safety Training Academy. It is a intergovernmental organization. NIPSTA was being developed before 9/11. A bit after 9/11 occurred the door finally opened for many different types of response teams to train. Duty, pride, and tradition are words that the people who are apart of NIPSTA live by. NIPSTA is runned by Jill Ramaker. She is very important to the history of this training academy because she was the first women to run it. She had first went to paramedic school and started working for a fire department, then got a masters in homeland security. After that she had became a Nurse during 9/11, but then came back to Public Safety and became apart of NIPSTA. She came to NIPSTA three years ago then got a masters in law. There are 450 instructors there but not many are women not only is she one of the few she is the executive director. NIPSTA gets their firefighter recruits from fire fighters who have been hired by a department but the department sends them to NIPSTA for training and they pay $3500 for them to go. At NIPSTA these response teams come together to train together. One of the activities that we saw when we went to visit was the collapsed building. There were firefighters from different towns working to resolve the problem of the collapsed building quickly but safely. This is a really important skill for firefighters to know because a lot of buildings that are on fire collapse. Knowing how to respond to that type of emergency is always good because you'll learn how to quickly and carefully remove the debris to save lives.

Amelia Barnes