Planning for emergencies, from floods and fires to pathogens and tech outages

When emergencies happen, our responses need to be quick and coordinated. But from climate events to pathogens and IT challenges, we don't know when or how our planning will be tested.

This episode’s guest is Tracie Jones, who manages Fraser Health’s emergency preparedness and the BC Biocontainment Treatment and Training Centre. Tracie walks host Dr. Victoria Lee through recent examples of when our emergency plans were put into action and how we’re preparing for what might come next.

Chapters
What is emergency preparedness?
The past decade: flooding, heat, wildfires and more
The recent CrowdStrike outage
Fraser Valley flooding in 2021
Supporting wildfire evacuees from Yellowknife  in 2023
Community evacuations
Preparing for pathogens

Guest bio
Tracie Jones is a nurse by training with experience in Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units, as a Forensic Nurse Examiner, and in the specialty of Mass Gathering Medicine.  

About The Heart of It
Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, takes listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.  

Listen to and watch more episodes of The Heart of It here. Did you catch our previous episode, which went behind the scenes of our emergency departments? Be sure to subscribe to The Heart of It in your favourite podcast player app so that you don’t miss a beat.
 
This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the q̓ ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations, treaty lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First Nation, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.

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