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Committee debates reconstituting CERT; town staff to research uses and recruitment
Summary
Fort Myers Beach officials discussed restarting a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) but split over its usefulness for island-wide hurricanes; the fire chief said a prior CERT dissolved for lack of use and asked the committee to identify realistic roles, costs and training needs before moving forward.
Kieran Farrell, acting chair of the Fort Myers Beach Public Safety Committee, brought the committee into a broad discussion about whether to reconstitute a Community Emergency Response Team.
Thomas Yazzo, merch services director for Fort Myers Beach, told the committee CERT "is a massive tool" but said he does not "believe that CERT is an effective tool within scope of EM for a hurricane type emergency," arguing volunteers may be preoccupied with their own homes after a major storm. "I…
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