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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 fires.  Volunteers knocked on doors, posted flyers about the area’s mudslide risk and radioed in...