Civil Defence games for Kaiapoi

Press, 29 September 1988, Page 49

Civil Defence games for Kaiapoi

The Ministry of Civil Defence’s southern zone rescue competition will be held at Kaiapoi this year on October 8. Seven teams from Canterbury, Marlborough, Oamaru, and Invercargill will test their skills in October under eight different scenarios. Each team of eight members will compete for six trophies. It is the third year the competition has been held and will include life-sav-ing skills such as first aid, knots, map reading, radio operation and rescue from damaged buildings.

“The competitions are with the aim of promoting new skills, comparing standards between teams, promoting public awareness and providing a forum for interchange of ideas,” said the assistant commissioner for the southern zone, Mr John Lovell. The competitions had been supported by the AMP Civil Defence survival skills project and would this year coincide with the AMP Civil Defence road show. A 17m truck, a semi-trailer unit and an earthquake simulator on a separate trailer

make up the $1 million show. Photographic and emergency hardware displays would be set up in the semi-trailer together with units to practise cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The earthquake simulator seats 12 people, who experience 2% minutes of earthquake supported visually by footage on a large screen. “What you see is what you feel,” Mr Lovell said. The roadshow and competitions will be held on October 8, at the Blue Skies scout camp, from 9 a.m. ; ; .