{"id":91573,"date":"2022-04-20T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=91573"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:11:26","slug":"quadra-islands-disaster-preparedness-expo-set-for-saturday-may-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/quadra-islands-disaster-preparedness-expo-set-for-saturday-may-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadra Island&#8217;s Disaster Preparedness Expo set for Saturday, May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quadraemergency.ca\/?page_id=326)\">The Quadra Island Emergency Program<\/a> (QIEP) is having a disaster preparedness expo on May 14, and residents from the surrounding islands are invited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">QIEP is an emergency volunteer organization functioning under the SRD's emergency program.\u00a0 It works to assist residents in the event of emergencies, and help neighbourhoods prepare in order to be more resilient in the event of a disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Judy Hagen has been working on disaster preparedness on Quadra Island for 15 years. She says the event will attract anyone who wants to learn how to be better prepared for a disaster.\u00a0 On Quadra, Cortes, and Reid Islands, disasters may include wildfire or earthquakes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Participants can shop for preparedness supplies, connect with organizations involved in disaster preparedness and response, and learn how to be better prepared for a disaster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/safety\/emergency-management\/preparedbc\">PreparedBC<\/a>'s Emergency Preparedness week is May 1 to 7 this year.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Quadra Island Disaster Preparedness Expo is Saturday, May 14th, from 11 to 3 pm at the Quadra Island Community Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the interview with Judy Hagen:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quadra Island Emergency Program (QIEP) is having a disaster preparedness expo on May 14, and residents from the surrounding islands are invited.\u00a0 QIEP is an emergency volunteer organization functioning under the SRD&#8217;s emergency program.\u00a0 It works to assist residents in the event of emergencies, and help neighbourhoods prepare in order to be more resilient&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":91577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[314,14007,14008,14009,369,1508],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91573"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91701,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91573\/revisions\/91701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91573"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=91573"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=91573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}