BCIT tests emergency response procedures at main campus

BURNABY (NEWS 1130) – Students and staff at BCIT in Burnaby will see crews dealing with a mock emergency today.

The school’s Glen Magel says the test involving a simulated boiler explosion will put response teams to the test.

“It’s very realistic. Every body is going to be using the training education they’ve been given over a vast number of years,” says Magel.

“We carry a fairly large disaster program and exercise. Typically we’d look at scenarios similar to earth quakes, flooding (disasters) that would actually test as many of the teams as possible.”

A real boiler explosion tore apart a building on campus back in 2004, but no one was seriously hurt.

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