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What is this document?
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This document describes the processes we use with the Los Altos Hills CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) program.
It gives a detailed view of how the operations section is structured, with a focus on priorities, documentation, and communicating status
between groups.

It does not focus on individual positions;
there is a separate guide that outlines each positions responsibilities.


We encourage everyone to become familiar with the whole process: it will make your individual steps make more sense,
and in an emergency you never know who may need to step into a leadership role.

But first timers should focus on the individuals chapter of the LAH CERT Position guide.  All our procedures are available online
in the `Procedures and Documentation page`_ of the `LAHCERT Web Site`_.

.. _`Procedures and Documentation page`: https://cert.lahcfd.org/procedures
.. _`LAHCERT Web Site`: https://cert.lahcfd.org/

About the publishing system (for end users)
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If you are `looking at this on the official web site`_: you should note the ``v: latest`` box in the lower right: |v-latest|

If you click on that box you will get several options.  The key ones are in the ``Downloads`` section:
you can download a PDF copy (for printing) or an epub document (for viewing on a mobile device).
We recommend you do this so you have access to this document even if the internet is not working for you.

.. _`looking at this on the official web site`: https://lahcert-ops-procedures.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

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