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SALINAS, Puerto Rico - The Puerto Rico National Guard has a new emergency response element of citizen-soldiers and airmen known as the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosive enhanced response force package, or CERF-P.
After a rigorous, week-long qualification trial in February at Camp Santiago Joint Maneuver Training Center (CSJMTC) in Salinas, Puerto Rico’s CERF-P is the latest team to earn official validation to support local emergency first responders.
The CERF-P elements are comprised of traditional National Guard Soldiers and Airmen, trained and equipped to integrate into the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to plan and conduct casualty search and extraction, medical triage and treatment, ambulatory and non-ambulatory decontamination, and fatality search and recovery.
The initial establishment of CERF-Ps places at least one in each of the ten Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regions and are unique to the National Guard. Comprised of nearly 200 members, the Puerto Rico National Guard CERF-P is ready to support at the right time and place to save lives and mitigate human suffering.
| Date Taken: | 02.15.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 02.22.2012 17:08 |
| Story ID: | 84194 |
| Location: | SALINAS, PR |
| Web Views: | 65 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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