2 - Friday, November 17, 1989 - North Shore News

More volunteers needed to support disaster plan

RECOVERY AFTER a major disaster on the North Shore
is dependent upon the community’s involvement before

misfortune strikes.

Officials gathered at a recent
North Vancouver meeting on
disaster preparedness called for
more volunteers to support
emergency plans already in place.

Emergency Social Services
(ESS), a component of the North
Shore Disaster Plan, has scheduled

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

a two-night course to provide
training for people interested in

volunteering to staff ESS evacua- .

tion reception centres. The evacua-
tion centres would be set up to

provide 24-hour care and housing

for North Shore residents
dislocated in the event of a
disaster.

Course participants will be
taught emergency preparedness
and stress management skills. Both
sessions are free of charge and will
be held at recCentre Lonsdale,
from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

To work effectively, ESS re-
quires a large poo) of volunteers to

call upon at short notice. ESS is
mandated to provide the necessary
human-care response following the
emergency deployment of police,
fire and ambulance services. The
reception centres will provide im-
mediate shelter, feeding, personal
support and information to
displaced residents.

Said Rupert Downing, North
Vancouver District social planner
and ESS director: ‘‘Communities

have to be as self-sufficient as
possible, but there also needs to be
a long-term recovery plan. It takes
some people a long time to get
over the trauma following a
disaster,” he said.

In West Vancouver the desig-
nated evacuation centres are: West
Van Rec Centre, 780-22nd Street;
Gleneagles School, 6350 Marine

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