AS - Sunday, April 22, 1984 - North Shore News

NEXT WEEKEND

Lions Bay folk

IF YOU should happen to be startled next Fri-
day or Saturday by the sound of loud rocket

blasts or the sight of white and green flares
coming from ae westerly direction, don’t be
alarmed — it will merely be the Lions Bay rescue

groups conducting a joint exercise to test just how

prepared the local

areal emergency.

Rosalind MacPhee,
Public Relations Officer tor
the Lions Bay Search and
Rescue squad. says the joint
exercise will be a one shot
event

“We just want to work it
through once. We want to
find out if people can see the

fire department,
and search and rescue crews will be in the event of

ambulance

By JOANNE MacDONALD

weekend's operation. will
occur at midnight Friday It
will consist of a creek
blockage on the lower
Bayview Road Alberta
Creek Bridge. which will

gear for rescue

followed by
flares.
MacPhee says costs of the
operation will be minimal,
since all of the equipment 1s

already in place, and all of
the

two parachute

crew members are
volunteers. Expenses will
only be incurred for such

items as flares.

The Lions Bay Search and
Rescue team has only been
in Operation for one vear,
with the crew receiving extra
traiming from the Provincial
Emergency Program (PEP).

Meanwhile, the local
Emergency Health Services
department has recently
hired two full-ttrme staff
members for day work. The

simulate damage to residents move now makes the am-
flares from their houses or and buildings. According to bulance crew available 24
hear the blasts, and find out MacPhee, injured persons hours per day — it
if the sound travels or (local residents assisting in previously Operated from 6
echoes,’ says MacPhee the test) will be removed pm.to6a.m
“We have to find out exactly from the area over a tem- MacPhee says the area's
what has to be done in case porary rope bridge to the volunteer rescue teams serve
of an emergency, and who — evacuation centre at the local not only the Lions Bay area
will be in| command — It's village hall but, im some cases,
difficult with three groups The next day at noon, a neighboring communiues, as
involved in a disaster train’car crash will be well.
situation. We have team simulated on the lower Lions She cites the fire
leaders, but in an actual Bay Avenue, with the crews department's record in the
disaster. Emergency Health being forced to carry oul a last few months: out of 30
Services (ambulance partial evacuation, a missing — call-outs since March 1, only
officials) will have — person's search, the control one wasin Lions Bay.
precedence Thev can take of toxic fumes, fire fighting “We've got a lot «at
anyone off the street to help 9 and acar extrication. dedicated people,’ savs
them in much the same way MacPhee says warning MacPhee. ‘It's really a way
as police can" signals of the disasters will of life that thev’ve chosen to

The first part of next includg two rocket blasts — live out here *'

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