DeeDee Martin, left, chief nursing officer at SEK Multi County Health Department, and members of Allen County Community Emergency Response Team look over equipment included with backpacks purchased for the team by money from a grant the health department won from Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The local CERT team received 10 hats, command vests and backpacks, as well as a large fold-up command board, which Pam Beasley, county emergency management director, said would be valuable when the team responded. CERT members are, from left, David Fontaine, Larry Crawford, John Smith and Beasley. CERT teams in Woodson, Bourbon and Anderson counties also received equipment from the grant.
A helping hand
