To help the citizens of Benicia to become self-sufficient following a major disaster by developing multifunctional teams that are cross trained in basic survival skills.

Program History: The Benicia Emergency Response Team is an adaptation of the SF program and has several hundred graduates since 2002. It is administered by the Benicia FD.

Be Prepared: The BERT program offers training in preparedness and team response.

The Purpose of the Yahoo BERT forum: To provide for easy and rapid communications among BERT members through email to all.

Why use this forum? Email addressed to the Group will be broadcast to all participants. There is no better way to exchange information among BERT members and specifically, others in your immediate neighborhood. You will get to read about the activities of other teams, pickup ideas and get to share yours. It is like having your finger on the pulse of BERT activity.

So What Now? Join the group. It's free.

Your User's Name: You might want to select a User's Name that identifies you. Refrain from using a cryptic name. Oh, by the way, it needs to be all in lower case. Anonymity is not allowed on this forum.

Your Profile: Please do not enter any personal information such as Age, Address, Phone, etc. It's not needed. But do enter and share your special talents or special inventory such as Ham Radio, Keeper of a Cache, Advanced First Aid Experience, Gas Driven Chain Saw, Heavy Tools, etc.

Mail: Select how you want to receive mail from the forum. Individual email sent to you in real time as soon as they're posted or Digest Mode which delays and accumulates emails and sends them in one longer email once a day or so.

Website: Also visit the main BERT website at http://www.BeniciaBERT.com