• Workshop: Emergency Waste Management After a Disaster 🚽

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    How Will You Manage Without Plumbing After a Disaster? Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP) invites you to a 1.5-hour workshop on an important, yet often overlooked, aspect of disaster…

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  • Workshop: Water Security Planning for a Post-Disaster Situation

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Chris Green Document: Metro Vancouver Regional Water Supply System Lifeline Study - click here to download Summary: Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP) invites you to a 1.5-hour workshop…

  • Presentation: Preparing our Community for Emergencies

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by John Halldorson Slides – please click here to download a copy of the slides used in this presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4kBSJTRl4 Summary: Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP) invites you to…

  • Presentation: Vancouver Emergency Management Agency of the City of Vancouver

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Miranda Myles Manager, Community Readiness Vancouver Emergency Management Agency City of Vancouver This presentation will be held in person only at Dunbar Community Centre. Please register using the form…

  • Presentation: Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    We are a group of health professionals working at the intersection of climate and health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIrB09_au0 SUMMARY: CAPE is a national body – Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, involved…

  • Presentation: Emergency Preparedness and First Aid for Your Pets

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Presented by Lis Jang from Vancouver’s Emergency Support Services & Heather Furgeson - Canadian Disaster Animal Response Team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsLPS0qhWew USEFUL Handouts: How to know if your cat or dog needs…

  • Event: Build a Grab & Go Bag plus Map Your Neighbourhood

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by John Halldorson Click here to see the slideshow used during the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqA5ydqZ0g8 Join us for a useful session to learn about Grab & Go bags and mapping your…

  • Presentation: The new Canadian Seismic risk model developed by Natural Resourses Canada

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Dr Tiegan Hobbs Research Scientist at Natural Resources Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRccm_B3Rw SUMMARY: In my presentation, I will describe Canada’s first publicly available Seismic Risk Model. It is a nation-wise risk assessment,…

  • Presentation: History of Deep

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Ann Pacey FOUNDER OF DEEP AND LONGTIME ADVOCATE FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Slides - click here to view the slides used in this presentation SUMMARY: This walk-through DEEP history talk…

  • Presentation: Culture and Disasters: A View from Anthropology

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Jonathan Eaton UBC Anthropology PhD candidate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkpIWwlKWUY SUMMARY: This presentation will discuss how cultural knowledge informs disaster preparedness, especially in relation to earthquakes in our region. Jonathan will also address the importance…

  • Presentation: Tsunami – stealth killers

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Professor John Clague Emeritus Professor at Simon Fraser University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87UeiLCbkY SUMMARY: In this century alone, tsunamis have killed over 250,000 people, far more than all earthquakes combined. In my…

  • Presentation: Earthquake Hazards and Risk on Canada’s West Coast

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Professor John Clague Emeritus Professor at Simon Fraser University Slides - click here to download the slides from this presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAL2FBCS50 SUMMARY: Geologists and geophysicists working along west coast…

  • Presentation: Can you hear me? – VECTOR Radio

    Dunbar Community Centre, Room 202 4747 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    by Hassan Hassan of VECTOR Radio (the organization of Ham Radio Operaters who support communications during a emergency of disaster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3uqrGOdmo8 SUMMARY: Communicating in an emergency when the communications infrastructure…