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THE Penal Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) continues to build its disaster resilience through the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) programme.

Since 2018, the municipal corporation has trained and added volunteers to its emergency response framework, according to Videsh Lal, co-ordinator of the PDRC disaster management unit (DMU). About 350 have been trained in critical skills such as search and rescue, fire suppression and basic first aid.