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If you have had Introduction to Disaster Relief and/or any specialized classes, and your class certification has expired or will expire this year, please take the opportunity and get re-certified, so that you may be able to serve when a disaster occurs. If you take Introduction to Disaster Relief, you need to recertify every 3 years, regardless of activation. To take Recertification class, you must be an existing volunteer.
Introduction to Disaster Relief and Specialized Classes – Dandridge (East TN)
February 15, 2025 @ 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025– First Baptist Church, 951 Highway 92, Dandridge, TN. To pre-register for this class, contact Don Owen at dnowen@bellsouth.net with your names and classes desired.
Please pre-register by Tuesday, February 11, so that we can supply you with the proper training materials.
The credentialing fee is $40. This fee will cover not only the cost of the ID, hat, background check, and membership pin, but also the cost of any of the basic training courses a volunteer wants to take over the next 3 years.
In order to be fully credentialed, you will need to take at least one specialized class after you have taken the prerequisite course of “Introduction to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.”
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Introduction to Disaster Relief (2-hour class)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Shower/Laundry Unit Training (Classroom) (1 ½ hr. class)
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Damage Assessment (1 ½ hr. class)
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Fire Recovery (1 ½ hr. class)
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Unit Director/Blue Cap Training (requires recommendation) (1 ½ hr. class)
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Chainsaw Operation & Safety (Classroom)
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Forklift Operation & Safety/Skid steer (Classroom)
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch – $6/person
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Flood Recovery (1 ½ hr. class)
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Tree Felling Techniques (new class to learn new skills) (1 ½ hr. class)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Forklift Operation & Safety/Skid steer (Hands-on) (2 hr. class)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Bucket Truck Classroom Training (A & B) (must be currently certified
in Chainsaw Operations prior to taking this course) (3 hr. class)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM FormStack (Bring cellphone or computer) (3 hr. class)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Spiritual Preparation/Evangelism (This class needs to be taken in addition with another specialty class for callout purposes such as mass feeding, chainsaw, flood recovery, etc.; this class is to prepare you for a callout.) (3 hr. class)
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break
Registration Forms
Disaster Relief volunteers can now download the following forms to their computers and fill them out and bring them to the training. By typing these forms, it saves time with data entry and increasing accuracy of keeping your records.
Use this link to find the forms: https://tndisasterrelief.org/registration-forms/