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Problem 2: Inaccessibility of the Port Complex Drawbacks: This alternative takes one CERT trainer from each agency’s resources; and each agency would also need to commit time for interagency coordination. 3) Train the Port workers to become CERT trainers (“Train-the-Trainers”). Annual cost to train 10% - 30%: $255,000 - $265,000 117 A private consulting firm could train ten port workers as CERT trainers. These newly trained workers could then provide CERT instruction full-time (three classes each day, five days each week) to the other workers at the port. Disaster Consultants, Inc., based in Los Angeles, is available to conduct this training. 118 Other companies are available regionally to do this work as well. 119 Strengths: At a cost similar to the other alternatives, a private consulting firm could begin training the ten trainers almost immediately. The trained workers could then train their co-workers as quickly as, if not faster than, the other alternatives. Drawbacks: The new worker-trainers would have no first response expertise compared to professional first responders, which would limit the depth of the training that they can provide. The ILWU and other unions have said that this lack of expertise would concern them. 120 117 Estimates by PSAPP Team based on email correspondence with Captain Don Lee, Firefighter Jim Harkins, Firefighter Stacy Gerlich, and Caryn Friedenthal. See Appendix C for additional details. 118 Caryn Friedenthal (Disaster Consultants, Inc.), “community emergency response team program,” Email to Seth Jacobson, 26 February 2003. 119 Adam Sutkus, phone interview by Seth Jacobson, 16 March 2003. 120 Luisa Gratz, interview by Seth Jacobson, San Pedro, CA, 25 February 2003. 46 Department of Policy Studies, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research
RECOMMENDATION Problem 2: Inaccessibility of the Port Complex ¸ The CERT Advisory Committee should coordinate the creation of an interagency CERT Joint Training Team for the port complex. Within the SEMS framework for the local Operational Area, the CERT Advisory Committee should coordinate the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Long Beach Fire Department and the American Red Cross to develop Memorandums of Understanding in which each agency agrees to contribute one existing, full-time CERT trainer to a Joint Training Team to train the port workers. If the Joint Training Team were to set a target to train 30% of the port workers, they could achieve this goal in less than 1.5 years at an estimated cost of about $325,000 for Year 1 and $162,500 for Year 2. Realistically, however, if this team were to start training workers this year, it would launch its efforts no earlier than June. Consequently, the estimated costs would be reversed; $162,500 for 2003 and $325,000 for 2004, and the team could achieve its goal by the end of 2004. The CERT Advisory Committee should contact the following agency representatives to coordinate this effort: Los Angeles County Fire Department: Chief David Stone, (323) 881-2403 Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department: Natalie Macias, (323) 526-5015 Los Angeles Fire Department: Captain Don Lee, (818) 756-9674 Long Beach Fire Department: Captain Scott Clegg, (562) 570-2577 Red Cross, Los Angeles Chapter: Sharon Counselman-Keith, (213) 739-5214 Allen, Clampitt, Hipp, and Jacobson 47
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