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| To encourage local community emergency response teams | 1 |
| to incorporate training for agricultural | 2 |
| emergencies and disasters in their training | 3 |
| programs. | 4 |
| WHEREAS, The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program | 5 |
| helps train people to be better prepared to respond to emergency | 6 |
| situations in their communities; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, When emergencies happen, CERT members offer critical | 8 |
| support to first responders by providing immediate assistance to | 9 |
| victims and organizing volunteers at a disaster site. | 10 |
| Additionally, CERT members also can help with nonemergency | 11 |
| projects that improve the safety of their communities; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, As urban areas extend more into agricultural areas, | 13 |
| it is critical that CERT members become familiar with responding | 14 |
| to agricultural emergencies and disasters; therefore be it | 15 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Senate of the 130th | 16 |
| General Assembly of the State of Ohio, encourage local community | 17 |
| emergency response teams to incorporate training for agricultural | 18 |
| emergencies and disasters in their training programs; and be it | 19 |
| further | 20 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate send duly | 21 |
| authenticated copies of this resolution to leaders of the local | 22 |
| Community Emergency Response Teams in Ohio and to the news media | 23 |
| of Ohio. | 24 |