To make the regional portion of Emergency Management BC’s $1.2-million earthquake exercise – taking place in Port Alberni from June 7-10, 2016 – as real as possible, the Province is relying on the time and donations of many businesses and volunteers to help deliver Exercise Coastal Response, BC’s first ever, full-scale earthquake and tsunami response exercise throughout the entire provincial landscape.
Volunteers will be onsite as actors attending to play:
Medical patients – Working with first responders and 90 Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) team members, these volunteers are treated to a medical makeover with movie-quality makeup artists and given a patient-care script to follow during the course of treatment.
Emergency social service (ESS) clients – These volunteers work with ESS teams located at reception and housing centres and represent those in need of shelter, food, water emotional support, family reunification and information on the crisis.
These volunteer-actors include 160 staff and students from School District 70, while Vancouver’s SFX Studios will provide medical make-up for the actors. SFX Studios creates the make-up for Life in the ER and other television programs: sfxstudio.com/home.html
Learn more about Exercise Coastal Response: news.gov.bc.ca/stories/exercise-coastal-response-2016
Posted by BC Gov Photos on 2016-06-10 17:49:27
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