Emergency Planning - FAQs

Welcome:

 A) Do Lay people have a role to play in an emergency?

 B) Do we have local emergencies?

A)  Is there a place for Lay readers, Lay certificate members and others to play a part in emergency planning? 

1. The broad answer is Yes if /when the appropriate training has been completed. ( The deeper question is ' Where is the best place for such involvement?)
2. In addition,churches need their own emergency plans and the locus for an emergency response is throughout the community.
3. Resilience in advance of a crisis is a matter for individuals, family groups, churches and other faith groups, schools, industry, commerce in fact wherever people congregate.
4. It may be possible to incorporate training and awareness into the course structures or as extra curricular activity in order to pursue this further.
5. Volunteers are also needed within the other voluntary agencies such as WRVS, Red Cross, St Johns Ambulance.

B) Do we have emergencies that warrant such a commitment locally?

1. In 2005 there was a flood in Newark that required the rehousing of 1500 young people from the Campsite at the Newark Showground following a flash flood. They were transferred to local emergency Rest Centres.
2. Houses were also evacuated during another flood south of Newark.
3. A Lorry caught fire at Farndon and 300 houses were evacuated in case of fumes and explosion. A Rest Centre was opened up.
4. Houses were evacuated near Toton when a train overan the buffers and fractured a gas main. A Rest Centre was opened up.
5. Industrial Fires in Sherwood, Mansfield and elsewhere, have put theses resources on standby
6. In 2002 there was serious flooding along the Trent. Gunthorpe, and Attenborough were significantly affected.
7. Animal diseases have caused isolation of Farmland and their communities.
8. The Selby Rail crash affected communities over a wide area
9. Road accidents involve the Blue Light agencies daily.
10. Pandemic Flu is a major preoccupation for the Health servicesas they plan and prepare for this possibility.
11. Civil disorder and terrorism are also concerns for the authorities.
12. Adverse weather conditions seem to strike communities more severely( some say because of Global warming)  thus affecting power supplies, water, food output, and so endanger communities re flood, fire, cold and health.
13. In all these events , the Blue light and emergency services seek to restore order and even limit the damage. Communities do need to play their part as well by learning to work together to build their resilience to the effects of a crisis.

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