The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo Herald Publications - El Segundo, Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 106, No. 1 - January 5, 2017 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.....................14 Classifieds............................4 Crossword/Sudoku.............4 Entertainment......................6 Legals............................11-13 Obituaries.............................2 Pets......................................15 Police Reports.....................3 Real Estate................8-10,16 Sports.................................5,7 Weekend Forecast Menorah Lighting at City Plaza Mayor Pro Tem Drew Boyles and Councilmember Carol Pirsztuk were on-hand to celebrate Hanukkah at El Segundo’s City Hall Plaza on December 27 with the annual Menorah lighting event. The festivities including food, music and dance with Rabbi Dovid Lisbon (Jewish Community Center of the South Bay) providing emcee duties. Photo Provided by El Segundo TV. Fire Department Expands Emergency Response Training to Schools, Businesses By Brian Simon Building on a quest to engage more local Robots Are Coming for Your Job By Rob McCarthy Yes, American jobs--especially in manufacturing--are being lost. But, Mexico and the Far East aren’t where the work is going. Robots are replacing people who do everything from pack shipping boxes to write about college football right here in the U.S.A. Recent promises of President- Elect Donald Trump to bring back jobs that have gone overseas miss the point. The jobs are gone, but not only to foreign competition. Automation is changing U.S. industry in a much bigger way than trade deals. Researchers at Ball State University in Indiana last confirmed that politicians who rail against trade deals as a reason for lost manufacturing jobs, especially in the Midwest and Detroit’s auto industry, have it backward. Trade deals resulted in 13 percent of America’s lost factory jobs compared to 88 percent of jobs that were taken by robots and non-global factors that reduced U.S. factories’ need for human labor. Still, U.S. output is nearing an all-time high and the push toward robots and software is just getting started. “We’re making more with fewer people,” one economist said of the technological revolution quietly taking place in the U.S. economy. The Detroit auto industry is building more cars and trucks than ever with one-third of the labor force it had in the 1970s. Plants that make steel and metals citizens in disaster preparedness, the El Segundo Fire Department recently expanded the reach of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training to target the school and business sectors. The new programs--School Emergency Response Team (SERT) for school district personnel, and Business Emergency Response Team (BERT) for local business employees—will augment the training already available to residents. The first SERT class took place recently, with 19 El Segundo Unified School District employees on board. After completing the classroom portion of the curriculum, the volunteers went through hands-on field training courtesy of Department personnel at Fire Station 2. SERT members performed light search and rescue, basic first aid, fire extinguisher training and other skills needed following a major emergency. “We have also touched base with a few local businesses and plan to roll out BERT training in the coming months as well as begin to put together a list of local residents who might be interested in CERT training- -including refresher training for those existing El Segundo CERT members and new classes,” said Fire Chief Chris Donovan. “Our goal is to identify the three key stakeholder groups [residents, schools and businesses] and provide specialized training for each of these group members. Residents will be taught specific skills needed at home such as shutting down utilities, performing home checks, preparing disaster kits, basic first aid and fire extinguisher training. El Segundo School District personnel will be taught light search and rescue, patient triage and first aid, fire extinguisher training, and information on the psychology of those impacted by disasters to help deal with students fears and anxieties. Business workers will learn how to properly evacuate buildings, put together floor wardens for accountability, basic first aid and light search and rescue.” El Segundo’s CERT program originally launched nearly 20 years ago and then expanded in 2006 the year after Hurricane Katrina. Though hundreds of local residents and employees have completed the training course since its inception, the program went dormant the last couple of years. Donovan hopes to reinvigorate it and then some. “Right now, we have a list of approximately 50 residents who have taken CERT training,” he said. “Our goal going forward is to start the training for new CERT members and encourage those who have previously been trained to join us for periodic meetings and training sessions.” Those who finish the 20-hour program receive FEMA certificates that are good for life. However, instructors recommend that CERT members keep skills sharp via continued learning and training from sources such as the American Red Cross or www.ready. See Fire Department, page 3 See Robots, page 3 Friday Partly Cloudy 60˚/52˚ Saturday Cloudy 62˚/57˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 71˚/58˚
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