APP.COM - Emergency response teams receive trailers from state | Asbury Park Press Online

APP.COM - Emergency response teams receive trailers from state | Asbury Park Press Online: "New Jersey's Office of Emergency Management presented nine teams from across the state with the trailers, which are loaded with equipment needed to set up mobile command posts and triage centers, the State Police said. The equipment in the trailers includes a tent, electric generator, emergency lights, stretchers, rescue devices and medical supplies, State Police said. The Bayshore Regional team includes volunteers from Holmdel, Aberdeen, Hazlet, Keyport and Union Beach. The community emergency response team, or CERT, concept was developed in Los Angeles in 1985. New Jersey has the largest CERT program in the nation, with more than 10,000 volunteers and 375 teams statewid"