Southington CERT

02/28/2026

Company 1 is at YMCA Camp Sloper Outdoor Center for their annual polar plunge! We are providing Cold Water Safety standby, Southington CERT is here with their new resource bus for a warming center and AMR Waterbury, CT is here as medical standby.

02/24/2025

Polar Plunge 2/22/25 Southington CERT was honored to be able to support this great event.

02/24/2025

Great first outing with the new CERT bus helping warm the participants at the Polar Plunge at Camp Sloper in Officer Pelletier's Memory

02/22/2025

The new Southington CERT BUS being used to help keep the Polar Plunge participants warm at Camp Sloper.

04/06/2020

If residents are interested in joining a CERT Team, they can be sworn in as members after they complete the following on-line course: IS-317: Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams

FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Independent Study Course overview: IS-317: Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams

04/01/2020

03/31/2020

Starting today 5 members of Southington CERT will be helping Bread for Life by delivering food to 40 plus shut Ins On a Tuesday’s and Thursday This is how neighbors help each other.

09/27/2019

Take Training in Bristol then join Southington CERT Team.
2019 Fall CERT Basic Class – Bristol, CT
Bristol CERT is sponsoring a Basic Training for CERT, for people who would like to be
trained in the skills needed to be prepared to help when emergencies and disasters
affect their communities, families, and the workplace.
To everyone interested, please tell your friends, family, and coworkers.
Additional seats are available for this class!
This class is free, and open to everyone, regardless of age, residency, or experience.
Additionally, becoming "CERT Certified" will allow you to join Bristol CERT, or any other CERT team in Connecticut after your training. This class is offered to the public without obligation. You will also receive additional preparedness materials and equipment as part of attending this class.
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. CERT offers a consistent, nationwide approach to volunteer training and organization that professional responders can rely on during disaster situations, which allows them to focus on more complex tasks. Through CERT, the capabilities to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters is built and enhanced.
Anyone interested should come to class on Thursday, October 3rd at 6:30pm
Fire Station #4, 18 Vincent P Kelly Road, Bristol, CT 06010 – walk-ins welcome.
This class meets for 7 weeks, and finishes on Thursday, November 21, 2019
Visit https://www.bristolcert.com/join to sign up!
or contact the instructor, Kasi Frost, [email protected] or (860)845-6767

04/04/2019

Last night the Southington CERT Team participated in STOP THE BLEED PROGRAM which was presented by 2 former Assistant Fire Chiefs Carol Stiles and Brenda Murphy. We at Cert train to help our community by taking this type of class but we pray we will never have to use our Skills. Cert meets 1st Wednesday of month at Southington Fire HQ in training room, stop by if you are interested in helping your Town.

04/03/2019

Southington Cert had a table last night at Disability Awareness fair and Peter Dziedzic and Steve Pintarich staffed. The table

03/15/2019

Southington Cert will have a table this year

01/18/2019

With the winter storm coming, it pays to take a minute to prepare for your safety. Here are some tips on things you can do in order to stay safe in the upcoming weather:

Winter storms create a higher risk of car accidents, hypothermia, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning, and heart attacks from overexertion. Winter storms and blizzards can bring extreme cold, freezing rain, snow, ice, and high winds. A winter storm can:Last a few hours or several days;Knock out hea...