I joined CERT in our community in the Seattle area. The training included light search and rescue I knew nothing about, and how to organize others, and actual practice extinguishing fires and with a simulated disaster. We do not have a critical mass yet, so in a major disaster are expected to stay put and if our family is OK, organize our neighbors for self-help. I was very pleased with the training and think it would make all the difference in my attitude in a major disaster--in the PNW read earthquake with no warning or advance preparation time like with a hurricane. Not standing around wondering what to do wishing the government was there to help, and at least feeling like I knew how to get my neighbors working together to help ourselves. I never asked about the injury thing because there was so much emphasis on identifying and avoiding potential injury situations that I did not think about the chance of being injured nontheless.