Ari Delay News Today

At 5 years old, David Cosgrave scrawled “I want to be a firefighter when I grow up” in crayon for his kindergarten teacher.

Last week’s mudslide evacuation marked the first-ever activation of the Community Emergency Response Team as part of a new collaboration between the volunteer group and the San Mateo County’s Emergency Operations Center.  During the evacuation warning issued on Jan. 25, CERT volunteers from across the Coastside provided on-the-ground communication for residents in the southern part of San Mateo County, the same area evacuated last summer during the August CZU Lightning Complex fire...