Locals hit by tsunami learning how to better respond to disaster

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Locals hit by tsunami learning how to better respond to disaster
By Chularat Saengpassa 
The Nation

 

Students at a school in Phang Nga’s Takua Pa district presents an evacuation route that locals in their hometown should use in event of emergencies. Their presentation took place during a recently introduced disaster response course. FB Maitree Jong

 

BANGKOK: -- SINCE the deadly tsunami struck their hometown in 2004, locals in Phang Nga’s Takua Pa district have participated in evacuation drills every year.

 

Worried that the drills alone may not be enough, local schools have lately experimented with a disaster-response course too.

 

“This course teaches children about how to assess disaster risks. Over the course, they learn how to identify safe spots in their villages and draw up evacuation plans,” said Maitree Jongkraijug, a leader of the Ban Nam Khem community in Takua Pa.

 

When the tsunami raged through coastal villages of the district on Dec-ember 26, 2004, thousands of people were killed. A huge number of victims also went accounted for. Ban Nam Khem was sadly ranked among the 47 hardest-hit villages.

 

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[mettech]

tsunami is some how unpredictable and with the technology they have in villages just get your float near by or sleep with a life jacket on at all time.

In California they have sign on the road it is saying WATCH FOR TSUNAMI that is it.

[louse1953]

Just now, mettech said:

tsunami is some how unpredictable and with the technology they have in villages just get your float near by or sleep with a life jacket on at all time.

In California they have sign on the road it is saying WATCH FOR TSUNAMI that is it.

Just need a tsunami app,everybody has a phone.Earthquake out at sea and tsunami can take quite a while to arrive.Easy peasy.They have monitors out at sea already.