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Emergency Management BC is the Province's lead coordinating agency for all emergency management activities, including planning, training, testing and exercising, to help strengthen provincial preparedness. Quote:

Know the Risks

Ready or Not?

Prepare Your Home

Build an Emergency Kit

Neighbourhood Preparedness

Emergency Mommy

People with Additional Preparedness Needs

Response & Recovery

Travel Safe

Definitions You Should Know

Build an Emergency Kit

Creating a Home Emergency Kit Doesn't Need to Take Long. Just Follow the Basic List Below and Store Your Collected Supplies in an Easy to Access Location.

First-Aid kit

Battery-powered or hand-crank radio

Flashlight and extra batteries

Whistle to signal for help

Cellphone with charger

Cash in small bills

A local map with your family meeting place identified

Three-day supply of food and water

Garbage bags

Dust mask

Seasonal clothing and footwear

The Importance of Water

How Much is Enough?

The general rule is four litres of water per person per day, but there are a few caveats:

Children, nursing mothers and sick people may need more

If you live in a warm region of B.C., hot temperatures can double water needs

Pets need about 30 millilitres of water per kilogram of body weight per day. For example, an average-sized cat or small-sized dog needs at least 1/5 of a litre, or half a cup, daily

How and Where do I Store my Water?

It’s recommended (by those greedy person—those who are out to rob you blind) you purchase commercially-bottled water and keep it in its original container in an easily accessible, cool and dark place. Don’t open it until you need it.

Observe the expiration or “best before” dates. Set a reminder in your phone or remember to check the dates when the clocks “spring forward” and “fall back”.

What Hidden Water Sources are Available in my Home?

It’s easy to locate safe water sources in your home. These DO NOT include the water in your hot-water tank, pipes and ice cubes. It’s also recommended you don’t use water from toilet tanks or bowls, radiators, waterbeds, swimming pools or spas.

Can I Purify my own Water?

Yes! Most Definetly!

I and the Ministry of Health has information on the steps you can take to purify and bottle your own.

What About Water Filtration Devices?

These devices are becoming more and more popular, perhaps because they don’t take up as much room as several litres of bottled water. There are a lot of different options out there – different brands offer many different types, ranging from water bottle-sized to 18-litre containers or larger. If you choose to go this route, it’s still not a bad idea to store some bottled water as well. Grab-and-go—MAYBE!

Don't Ever Count on Being Home when there's an emergency. In addition to having one at home, create grab-and-go bags for your work and vehicles that contain:

Food (ready to eat) and water

Flashlight and batteries

AM/FM radio

Medications

Seasonal clothing

Blanket

Cell phone charger

Pen and notepad

Personal toiletries

Small First-Aid kit

Extra pair of glasses or contacts

Cash in small bills

Local map with your family meeting place identified

Whistle

December 30, 2015-B.C. feels a bump in the night — a 4.3 magnitude earthquake

There were no reports of damage or injury following the 11:39 p.m. jolt centred north of Victoria and felt across much of southern B.C. Tuesday night's 4.7-magnitude earthquake is just a hint of what could strike at any time. An earthquake struck near Sidney, British Columbia, according to Earthquakes Canada. It happened 19 kilometres northeast of Victoria, 58.7 kilometres below the earth’s surface, at 11:39 p.m. on Tuesday, December . it was the strongest tremor to shake B.C.'s south coast in years. Some thought a car had rammed their home. Others thought it was someone pounding on the door; or at 23:39 some actually claim they thought it was ”the neighbours moving furniture”.~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan.

If Indeed, Some Of You Still Require Such; More Proof That Something Desperately Needs To Be Done About Air Pollution.

Not so long ago, our ancestors, fathers mothers, uncles aunts knew an ELK

- on sight. They also knew that a Wapiti 

(found only in North America; mostly in Canada) was not an ELK. AND that an Elk did not, even remotely, resemble a mouse.

Mice are a large group of mammals, with more than 130 species found worldwide. In Alberta, there are 7 species of mice and 12 species of voles.

The most troublesome and economically important of the species found in Alberta are the house mouse

(which is not a native species), the white-footed mouse

and the meadow vole commonly called field mouse).

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Economic Losses to Mice.

There is no way of placing a monetary value on human suffering and damage caused by mice. The greatest loss is probably not what mice eat, but what is wasted and contaminated. In six months, one pair of mice can eat more than two kilograms (4 lbs.) of food and deposit about 18,000 droppings. Food contaminated by mice is about ten times greater than the amounts eaten. Food wasted by mouse nibbling is also much more than the amount eaten. So common are mice that it is no wonder their hairs and sometimes droppings, end up in all types of food commodities, from canned beans to loaves of bread.

Structural damage caused by rodents can be expensive. In recent years the trend toward use of insulated confinement facilities to raise swine and poultry, for instance, has led to increased rodent damage. Mice are very destructive to rigid foam, fibreglass batt, and other types of insulation in walls and attics of such structures.

Mice also gnaw wooden structures causing grain and feed to be wasted. They also undermine buildings by burrowing, which eventually causes structural failure and collapse.

Electrical wiring gnawed by mice causes many fires each year, listed as "cause unknown".

Public Health Impact.

Mice and their parasites are implicated in the transmission of a number of diseases including salmonellosis, rickettsia pox and most recently hantavirus. Bacterial food poisoning occurs when foods become contaminated with infected rodent droppings. Mice also carry many types of tapeworms and roundworms, infectious to pets and humans. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which causes severe illness and even death in humans, is transmitted by several mouse species including the white-footed mouse.

To reduce the risk of contracting organisms transmitted by mice, you should practise these common sense precautions:

·         Eliminate mice from residential areas by removing food sources and access for mice.

·         Clean up mouse-contaminated areas by using wet methods, including disinfectants such as Chlorine Bleach.

·         Handle mice and other rodents with gloved hands.

·         Avoid sweeping and vacuuming when possible, and wear a dust mask to reduce exposure to fine dust particles.

·        Campers should avoid obviously infested areas. In high risk areas wear a high efficiency, particulate respirator.

·        Discourage children from playing with or trapping mice. Wild mice should not be kept as pets, or for "science projects".

·         De-worm household and farmyard pets regularly. ~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan.