Launching soon! Website still under construction (and probably always will be)
Medics & Radios is a YouTube show about community resiliency and disaster response that promotes emergency management skills through scenario-based training. The goal is to help everyday people learn basic emergency management skills that they can use immediately in their community.
Medics & Radios is based directly on LA CERT’s Neighborhood Teams concept. Medics & Radios has 2 components; the community responders (Team Leaders, Scribes, Responders and Medics & Radio Operators) and Staging Area Staff.
Here’s the NTP Step-by-Step Guide to CERT Staging and Initial Response to a Disaster, the step-by-step plan to our drills.
This online course is for people who are working through the Medics & Radios program and attending our live drills. This course is the classroom part of our program and the drills are where you put what you learn here into practice.
The Medics & Radios online course will show you how to get more training from FEMA, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES), Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), etc. Our goal is help average community members train themselves to BSA merit badge standards in First Aid, Radio and Emergency Preparedness.
Live events: Medics & Radios is scenario-based training that I’m running for neighborhood watch groups and other civil defense-minded organizations on a donation basis. Each scenario will have basic first aid and radio modules.
Scenarios 1 & 2 (CPR and Choking, Basic Emergency Communications) are about Incident Management
Scenarios 3 & 4 (Stroke and Environmental Injuries, Intro to Radio) are about basic patient assessment
Scenarios 5-10 (Basic First Aid, Radio Modules) are about how to move and communicate during a disaster that requires community responders to start rescue operations when first line responders can’t or haven’t arrived yet
Radio Training: Modular and based directly on the BSA Radio Merit Badge guidelines
When people attend all 10 scenarios they’ll be exposed to all the training from the BSA First Aid and Radio merit badges in a CERT setting where community members are responding to their own disaster before ‘1st Responders’ arrive. The goal isn’t to beat the 1st Responders under normal times, but to fill the gaps in an actual disaster where 1st Responders might not even be able to get to the station to get a fire truck.
Watch for live events in southern New Mexico in Winter 2024.