Photo: CERT training

Published: Monday, Oct. 27 2008 12:44 a.m. MDT

Linda and Jeff Birrell of Bluffdale practice triage with the "victim" of a head wound during a Community Emergency Response Team training exercise Saturday in West Valley City. The mock-disaster exercise was sponsored by the West Valley City Community Corps Council.

August Miller, Deseret News

At left, Linda and Jeff Birrell of Bluffdale practice triage with the "victim" of a head wound during a Community Emergency Response Team training exercise Saturday in West Valley City. The mock-disaster exercise was sponsored by the West Valley City Community Corps Council. Above, CERT trainer Kelly Bertoch teaches participants in the exercise designed to improve search-and-rescue skills, triage and victim transport and treatment.

Get The Deseret News Everywhere

Subscribe

Mobile

RSS