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Lt. Erica Arteseros
Featured in Chapter Five: Crisis and Loss
Erica Arteseros is the Program Coordinator for the San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT). Lt. Arteseros joined the Fire Department in December 1997. Since her appointment in March 2004, Arteseros has supervised the training of over 12,200 people in NERT’s disaster preparedness and response classes. In addition, she has expanded the advanced training classes offered to NERT graduates so volunteers can maintain and increase their skill levels.
Lt. Arteseros has also worked extensively with City agencies, the private sector, and individual citizens in pre-disaster planning and training. She has devoted particular effort to reaching underserved areas in San Francisco to offer NERT's free disaster preparedness training. To reach more San Franciscans with personal preparedness information, Arteseros developed a two-hour personal readiness for community resiliency workshop that emphasizes the most crucial aspect of NERT training – how to take care of oneself. NERT has partnered with San Francisco SAFE, Inc., working with organized Neighborhood Watch blocks in addition to individuals and families.
In 2009, Lt. Arteseros became chair of the California Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Workgroup, a group of CERT program coordinators throughout the state who meet quarterly to share best practices, to coordinate CERT needs with state representatives, and to ensure that the state’s CERT curriculum is current and consistent.
A San Francisco native from the Western Addition, Arteseros attended Presentation High School and graduated from Humboldt State University. Lt. Arteseros lives in San Francisco.
Professional website: www.sfgov.org/sffdnert
Favorite charity: Camp Unalayee, sending low income children to the Wilderness for over 60 years