From Your ESS Team

Although local government has and continues to undertake emergency preparedness measures, it is

critical that individuals and families prepare to look after their own needs for a minimum of seven days.

To help you do this, Cowichan Valley Emergency Management published an Emergency Preparedness

Workbook available online at

https://www.cvrd.ca/DocumentCenter/View/84184/MIECM-Emergency-Preparedness-Workbook---2017?bidId=

Copies are also available from your LERN captain.

A segment titled “26 Weeks to Emergency Preparedness” in particular, will help you plan and actualize

your family's preparations.

Once a week for the next 26 weeks we will send the weekly recommendations to E-spokes. Please

consider implementing them as soon as and as best you can.

Week 1

Identify safe places in your home and on your property. Practice earthquake 'drop, cover, and hold” and

all the possible ways of getting out of your house. Thetis Island has challenging terrain. Give thought to

how you might have to evacuate if usual routes are cut off. Talk to your LERN captain about alternate

egress points. (see pages 36 & 42 in the Workbook. Earthquake and fire issues.)

Please refer to the Emergency Preparedness Workbook for much more information, especially page 2

regarding Grab and Go kits and ICE entries on your cell phone for your emergency contacts.

Remember that the Thetis Island Phone Book ( pages 3 through 7) are a ready and thorough aid to

Emergency Planning.

Petra A