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Dog First Aid Training Cat First Aid Training   Start Your Own DART!Interested in starting your own disaster animal response team? If you are representing a CERT group, watch this exciting slide show and learn how Lamorinda DART can help you deliver advanced CERT training to your graduates. First, watch the online presentation! Then check our Frequently Asked Questions about Starting a DART. If you have any questions, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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usDARTFive years after Katrina animals and their owners are still on their own when a disaster happens. The Red Cross will not shelter pets with their owners. Disaster responders are not trained to handle animals. Officials are not enforcing the PETS Act. It is time to do something about it: join DART! |
Lamorinda DART (Disaster Animal Response Team) Lamorinda DART is a group of experienced animal disaster responders. DART specializes in Animal Care and Sheltering during disasters. Our operational area includes the City of Lafayette, the Town of Moraga and the City of Orinda. Our emergency animal shelters are located near a shelter for people. Other partners are the Contra Costa County Animal Response Team (Contra Costa Animal Services), Noah's Wish, other DARTs in Contra Costa and the American Red Cross. Together, we rescue the whole family. |
It is so easy to take things for granted. If an apartment fire breaks out, MOFD will come and put it out. Traffic jam? Our local PD will handle it. Grandma fell in her home? The paramedics will take her to hospital.In "normal" circumstances our emergency responders are doing a wonderful job. Unfortunately, disasters are dramatically different from emergencies. 
Instead of relief, red flag warnings have been issued for parts of California stretching from the San Francisco Bay Area to the mountains and foothills of Los Angeles. Lamorinda CERT is urging residents to immediately review their evacuation procedures and make sure that they are ready to evacuate at very short notice, should the authorities call for evacuations!
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