Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER)
is a community-based volunteer
organization that has been established since 1980.
CAER members plan, practice and co-ordinate activities to enhance
safe operating practices and
reduce the risk of emergency situations that could threaten the
Hamilton-Wentworth Community.
Major
Accidents |
- gas or vapour release
- major fire, explosion
- multiple injury accident
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- major spill of hazardous material
- construction failures
- transportation accidents
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| Crisis |
- bomb threats
- Wide-Scale Power Outages
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| Disaster |
- earthquake
- hurricane
- tornado
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- plane crash
- snow/ice storm
- utility outages
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- Toronto, 1954, Hurricane Hazel: 81 Killed.
- Hamilton, 1968, Storm: wind speeds 180-251 km/hr, 40 homeless
- Mississauga, 1979: train derailment resulting in chlorine
leak, 250,000 evacuated
- Central Ontario, 1985: 12 killed by tornado
- Dryden, 1989: 24 killed in plane crash
- Hagersville, 1990: tire fire
- London, 1991: hundreds evacuated because of train derailment
and resulting chemical spill
- Hamilton, 1997: Plastiment fire
- 2000 Walkerton Tragedy
- September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
- 2003 Black-Out in Eastern U.S. and Canada
- 2005, Hamilton Tornado
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