Multiple agencies and emergency crews are gathered together in Port Alberni for Western Canada’s first full-scale earthquake and tsunami response exercise.
Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto says this is a way to test out B-C’s emergency response plan…
Yamamoto says about 600 people will be involved. The training runs until Friday.
Karen Lindsay, emergency program manager at the City of Nanaimo says she has been involved in a couple of smaller emergency simulations…..
Lindsay will be attending the exercises in Port Alberni along with several members of the emergency preparedness staff with the City of Nanaimo.
