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Thirty-three Educational Complex High School Students To Join Teen C.E.R.T. Program This Weekend

ST. CROIX -- Thirty-three St. Croix Educational Complex High School student-volunteers, this weekend, will face the final challenge before joining the ranks of Teen Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T), a youth disaster preparedness program sponsored by the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (V.I.T.E.M.A.) and Virgin Islands Rescue. According to a release V.I.T.E.M.A. issued on Wednesday, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, the Educational Complex student-volunteers will participate in a mock full-scale hurricane exercise to test basic disaster response skills learned in the classroom and during hands-on training including; fire safety and suppression, light search and rescue, disaster medical operations and team organization. The student-volunteers also completed Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training as part of the program, and will each receive an American Heart Association CPR certification card.   During Sunday’s mock exercise, the group will be require...