Sheldon MacLeod chats emergency preparedness with HRM Emergency Manager Erica Fleck
Be it flood, hurricane, or extended power outage, know the risks, be prepared
Erica Fleck is HRM’s Emergency Manager, and she talks about education, planning and how you can win a preparedness kit in their annual quiz.: This is Emergency Preparedness Week, May 7-13, 2023, And some people are very well prepared. In fact, there's a nickname for them — preppers. Obviously, a big focus for one week of the year but we do try and do that all year. Public education events, working with newcomers, and reminding people about the hazards of living in a coastal community, or for those living in the urban centers if their power goes out and they're in a high-rise apartment building, again, know your risks, as you said, and that's a little bit different for everybody across HRM.
But of course in the house, pets and young children can knock things over, that's how fires are started. So completely different when people are looking for bringing fuel-filled items indoors. Barbecues, putting stuff inside of stoves, propane stoves on top of your oven in the house. All of those things that really go sideways pretty quick, and cause more problems when people don't have a plan accordingly for the season that they're in.
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