Earthquake simulation rattles Ottawa River shoreline
dimanche, 6 octobre 2019 à 13:39 - More than 600 volunteers took part in Saturday s exercises.
Ottawa volunteers took part in an emergency earthquake exercise Saturday in rural Dunrobin, preparing for the possibility a damaging and potentially deadly 6.5-magnitude quake could one day rattle the region.
Similar exercises have been organized by Gatineau officials for the past five years, but this was the first time Ottawa emergency crews were invited to participate and the first time those exercises were held on this side of the Ottawa River.
Saturday s scenarios were aimed at giving first responders a taste of the challenges they d experience in a real disaster.