One Very Concrete Thing Schools Could Do to Help Teenagers Facing Disasters

LAFD created the first Community Emergency Response Team program in 1993 .

John Sutter : We need a three -pronged approach to transform disaster response into community preparedness.

We should integrate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s teen CERT training into school curricula across the country.

L.A. wildfires show communities will respond whether we prepare them or not, authors say.

CERT training remains unknown or inaccessible to millions in the U.S. , but it doesn’t have to be, they say.

The next disaster will strike with little warning, and once again, those first on the scene will be your neighbor, a stranger.