Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Committee
Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness
- Purpose – Encourage personal preparedness and organize volunteer Neighbourhood Coordinators (NC’s) who will promote neighbourhood preparedness.
- Goal – Enable individual neighbourhoods to become more resilient in the face of adversity caused by natural disasters.
During a disaster our neighbours will be our most reliable and immediate source of help, until assistance from first responders arrives. In a major disaster, first responders will be overwhelmed and may not be able to get to individual households for days, even weeks. First responders have priority response goals set out through the BC Emergency Management System.
Roads may be impassable and ferries may not be running so “sheltering in place” will be more manageable when working with neighbours which allows us to build up our own resilience through resource and skills sharing rather than remaining as independent households.
FMI~ Edi Johnston
250 335-2689