Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If we look at major emergencies in the UK over the last 25 years or so, there have been significant deficiencies in the response in just about every case. Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In the world as a whole, there has been a gradual process of demilitarisation of emergency response. Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors. The lineaments of the system reflect military practice.

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CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 24, 2023

Volunteers can be engaged in any type of emergency response—floods, wildfires, earthquakes and even acts of terror. Recent examples of volunteers emerging to support response and recovery operations during a disaster include BC’s 2021 atmospheric river and the 2022 earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

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