South Orange National Night Out

So this is a few days late, but South Orange (and thousands of towns across the country) held their National Night out this past Tuesday.

South Orange's event had all of the public safety departments down at floods hill for some informal hanging out before the main feature - Shrek. Read more @ Patch here.

I was down there on behalf of South Orange's Community Emergency Response Team with Tom Giordano from Seton Hall. We got more than a dozen people who said they were interested in potentially working with CERT or in some related volunteer public safety capacity. Hopefully we can really turn South Orange's CERT program into an example of how municipalities across the state and country (who are facing tough budget problems now more than ever) can leverage the energy of their residents and volunteers into helping keep their communities safe. More to come on the progress of CERT in South Orange soon!

Photo Credit: Marcia Worth of South Orange Patch