Century, Escambia And Pensacola Awarded Grant For Disaster Assistance

December 11, 2009

Escambia County, the City of Pensacola, and the Town of Century were recently awarded a total of $50,000 in grant funding from the Florida Division of Emergency Management Citizen Corps Office.

Funding was awarded to cities and counties throughout the state for the start-up or maintenance of Citizen Corps Council and CERT programs. These volunteer programs were created to support and direct statewide training and education in disaster planning and preparedness. The goals of the programs are to increase community awareness and participation in emergency preparedness utilizing a neighbor helping neighbor philosophy.

BRACE serves as the Escambia County Citizen Corps Coordinator, assuming all responsibility for Escambia County’s programs including CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), Fire Corps, Medical Reserve Corps, USA on Watch (Neighborhood Watch), and Volunteers in Police Service.

Free CERT classes are scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January for anyone interested in gaining hands-on training to assist in disasters. To register for classes, call BRACE at (850) 444-7135 or email brace@bereadyalliance.org. To learn more about BRACE, CERT and Citizen Corps, visit www.bereadyalliance.org.

Comments

One Response to “Century, Escambia And Pensacola Awarded Grant For Disaster Assistance”

  1. Matt on December 16th, 2009 9:20 pm

    Hopefully Century’s counsel won’t find a way to buy more hams with the money.

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