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Some cliches are true.<\/p>\n

Such as, “Better safe than sorry.”<\/p>\n

You can take action to make you and your loved ones safe \u2014<\/span> or at least safer \u2014<\/span> by the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Garden Grove’s C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team) begins a new, 20-hour, Friday through Saturday CERT Academy on April 20, 21, and 22.<\/p>\n

Classes take place Friday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at North Net Fire Training Center, 2400 E. Orangewood Ave. in Anaheim.<\/p>\n

C.E.R.T. is a volunteer organization with the Garden Grove Fire Department that provides free community training on how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster, as well as lend emergency support to first responders.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

C.E.R.T. training topics include disaster preparedness, medical operations, I.C.S. (Incident Command System), fire safety, light search and rescue, terrorism, and disaster psychology.\u00a0 <\/span>C.E.R.T. participants must be at least 18 years old and live and\/or work in Garden Grove.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to the C.E.R.T. training, the city will offer a CPR\/AED\/First Aid certification class on Saturday, April 14, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at North Net Fire Training Center. Led by EMS Safety Services, Inc., the cost for the class is $30. CPR students who attend and complete the CERT Academy (not required) will be refunded the $30 cost of the CPR class. Reservations for the CPR class must be made in advance by emailing ggcert.oc@gmail.com. Seats are limited.<\/p>\n

For information, or to enroll in the C.E.R.T. Academy, call 714-563-3917, download an application at cert.gardengrovefire.org, or email ggcert.oc@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5307],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocn.archives.ocnnewspapers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}