B.C. pledges to use Alert Ready system for more natural disasters following wildfire response

Pader Brach, executive director of regional operations at Emergency Management BC, said his organization is examining how to employ the Alert Ready system, available throughout Canada, more widely for natural disasters in British Columbia.

At a wildfire briefing on Thursday, Pader Brach, executive director of regional operations at Emergency Management BC (EMBC), said his organization is examining how to employ the Alert Ready system more widely after The Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that B.C.

Brach said the agency can now use Alert Ready for tsunamis, Amber Alerts and “civil disturbance hazards.” He said the system in B.C.

Brach said the agency is looking at including forest fire evacuations and potentially dangerous heatwaves.

“We have to make sure that we get it right when we utilize Alert Ready and make sure that it complements and augments and doesn’t cross wires with some of the current alerting systems that are out there,” Mr.

He said his organization is committed to working with the province to use the system effectively.

Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian, whose city has been ringed by wildfires in recent weeks, said Alert Ready, or any other software system, is urgently needed in evacuations.

Roden said her community implemented an emergency system called Voyent Alert this spring.

However, only Alert Ready can make “broadcast intrusive” warnings pop up on all TVs, radios, and cellphones in an area at once.

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said expanding Alert Ready needed to be done, and acknowledged it has capabilities the province’s warning systems lack.

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