Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2009/4/2/Sioux-Lookout-planning-for-disaster_16260
Sioux Lookout planning for disaster
Band members from 20 communities are better prepared to deal with a disaster after participating in the Emergency Management Planning and Health Canada Pandemic Planning Tabletop Workshop.
April 2, 2009: Volume 36 #7
Sixty people took part in the three-day workshop at the Sunset Suites in Sioux Lookout last week.
The workshop?s activities included the individuals participating in an emergency planning development session and learning roles, responsibilities, developing, prevention, response and recovery.
These lessons came into play when the participants had to come up with a plan after a mock blizzard occurred in Cat Lake.
Larry Laviolette, regional fire safety officer, said, ?It?s a tabletop exercise and we implemented it. For the First Nations, now they know how to develop an emergency plan and a pandemic plan.?
Laviolette said the workshop is happening because there?s a need to develop an emergency and pandemic plan in First Nations communities.
Laviolette hopes the participants take the information they learned back to their communities and establish these plans to help them get on the same level as a municipality, ?So when an emergency happens, everybody is on the same playing field.?
Participant Diana Nayanookeesic learned a lot over the week and will take back everything she learned to her community.
?Hopefully communities can do it and hopefully we can get at least 50 per cent who?ve attended develop a plan,? Laviolette said.
There are plans to have this workshop again next year Laviolette said.
Published in Wawatay Online, April 2, 2009, Volume 36, No. 7
Sioux Lookout planning for disaster
Band members from 20 communities are better prepared to deal with a disaster after participating in the Emergency Management Planning and Health Canada Pandemic Planning Tabletop Workshop.
April 2, 2009: Volume 36 #7
Sixty people took part in the three-day workshop at the Sunset Suites in Sioux Lookout last week.
The workshop?s activities included the individuals participating in an emergency planning development session and learning roles, responsibilities, developing, prevention, response and recovery.
These lessons came into play when the participants had to come up with a plan after a mock blizzard occurred in Cat Lake.
Larry Laviolette, regional fire safety officer, said, ?It?s a tabletop exercise and we implemented it. For the First Nations, now they know how to develop an emergency plan and a pandemic plan.?
Laviolette said the workshop is happening because there?s a need to develop an emergency and pandemic plan in First Nations communities.
Laviolette hopes the participants take the information they learned back to their communities and establish these plans to help them get on the same level as a municipality, ?So when an emergency happens, everybody is on the same playing field.?
Participant Diana Nayanookeesic learned a lot over the week and will take back everything she learned to her community.
?Hopefully communities can do it and hopefully we can get at least 50 per cent who?ve attended develop a plan,? Laviolette said.
There are plans to have this workshop again next year Laviolette said.
Published in Wawatay Online, April 2, 2009, Volume 36, No. 7