Your Los Angeles Fire Department encourages local residents to join the City of Los Angeles Crisis Response Team (CRT) volunteer program.

The CRT program is composed of professionally trained civilian community volunteers who respond to traumatic incidents at the request of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Departments in each of the fifteen Council Districts. 

CRT volunteers provide immediate on-scene crisis intervention, attend to urgent victim comfort needs, acts as a liaison between the victim and emergency personnel, and give referrals to victims and their families affected by death, serious injury, violent crime or other traumatic incidents. 

These incidents include homicides, suicides, serious traffic accidents, natural deaths and multi-casualty incidents. The CRT program is managed by the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security & Public Safety in collaboration with the City’s Fire and Police Departments.

The seven-week training session begins on March 4, 2013 - April 17, 2013, and will take place on each Monday and Wednesday evening at Police Headquarters in downtown L.A. You are encouraged to act now. Class Interviews begin mid February.
       
Volunteers are particularly needed with bilingual capability in Spanish and Korean.

Please contact Jeffrey Zimerman via email at LACRT@lacity.org or call (213) 978-0697 for additional information.

- Click HERE to fill out the online application. -

Submitted by Erik Scott, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department