On Saturday May 15, a group of ALERT members and Londonderry Firefighters participated in a yearly Chainsaw Cutting and Felling class presented by the Local Government Center (LGC) and instructed by Brent Bebe, a certified Sawyer for the NH Forestry service. The 4 hour morning class room session covered the basics of a cutting job [...]

On Tuesday, March 23rd, eleven members of ALERT (A Londonderry Emergency Response Team) visited a hangar at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport for DHART Safety Training.  DHART (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team) is part of the Critical Care Transport Program operated by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.

DHART is an air transport medical helicopter typically manned with [...]

Thursday night March 18, 2010 ALERT began its spring line training during a class session with Sgt. David Eskeland of New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Dept. Line training is one of ALERT’s core training goals and is one of ALERT’s main skills.

Bright and early Saturday morning ALERT headed into the Musquash Conservation area off of Hickory Hill Rd. [...]

Within a week of the one year anniversary of the 2008 Ice Storm that paralyzed southern New Hampshire, 15 volunteers from Londonderry ALERT participated in a 8 hour Red Cross Shelter Training Exercise. Also attending the training was Suzanne Roy an administrator with the Londonderry Fire Department and two Red Cross employees. [...]

This past weekend ALERT conducted a CPR/ First Aid and AED training for our members and the general public. We had 20 members attend with five of them being new. Gene Heighton from Citizens Corp with the assistance from ALERT training coordinator Rich Semaski conducted the 7 hour course. A great big thanks to the trainers and [...]

Saturday November 14th ALERT will be undergoing First Aid and CPR training. Non ALERT members can register for this class with a $25 fee however space is limited, if you are interested please contact Rich Semaski the ALERT training coordinator at

The training will take place at the Mathew Thornton Elementary school Gymnasium, arrival at 0745 [...]

ALERT headed out to the Musquash Conservation area for line search training from ALERT training oficer Rich Semaski.

Click here to view Joe Paradis’ story on this springs Line training exercise.

'09 Spring Line Training

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