Lakeshore Advance, 2013-02-20, Page 1818 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Early, accessible weather warnings key topics of Inquest
Gerard Creces
OMI Agency
Weather detection and weather warn-
ings dominated the jury's 14 recommen-
dations at the Coroner's Inquest into the
Beath of Sifto Salt miner Normand Lab -
erge last week.
Laberge lost his life while operating it
loading boom at the mine when the
August 21, 201 1 tornado swept through
Goderich with no warning other than a
black sky.
the inquest, which started Monday at
the 1 iuron County Courthouse, wrapped
01) about 7 p.m. Feb. l:i, after four hours of
jury deliberations.
In a tearful statement, Jocelyn 1Abelge,
Normand's daughter, described a hard
worker, a dedicated employee and a father
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Consistent, comprehensive
warnings fiuun Ix)th radar and
marine weather reports, access
to neurine and weather radios,
as well as a need for a standard
municipal warning siren all
made their way into the rec-
ommendation list.
Recommendations were
directed at hnvirYnutent Can-
ada, Emergency Management
Ontario (EMO), Sifto and the
town and county, as well aS
OPP, Canadian lRa(lio-teIevi-
sion '1'eleconlnlunications
Commission (CRTC), and the
Ministry of I About. as follows:
Environment Canada:
■ 1 Explore the feasibility of
adding the Marine'lOrnado
Warning banner of the
1veatht'roffice.gc.uit 1)11 to
tolyl l anti Int iI lll'ipal l'tll'Irllt
conditions and forecast
pages so both public and
marine warnings are in one
location for each affected
area.
■ 2 Explore the feasibility of
including notification of
Marine'1'ornado Warnings
on the weather radio for
affected shoreline
communities.
Environment Canada, EMO,
and the Citl'(;:
• 3 Strongly encourage and
recommend all broadcast-
ers to participate in the
National Alert Aggregation
and Distribution System
(NAAI)).
Environment Canada, EMO,
OPP, County of litmus and
Town of Goderich:
Craig Glover OMI Agency files
The Sifto Salt Plant in Goderich received heavy damage to the evaporator and building during the 2011 tornado.
■ 4 - Explore enhanced ways
of timely (dissemination to
the general public of
weather warnings that Io)se
a risk to life. Such dissemi-
nation should consider the
reach of social metria and
the limitations of social
media, and also include
other forms of notifications
that (lo not depend on
technology.
Emergency Management Ontario:
• 5 Work tvith municipalities to explore
the feasibility of a municipal siren sys-
tem for emergencies that has a consist-
ent tone that is standardized across
Ontario.
EMO, OPP, County of I Laron:
■ G Explore the feasibility that all enter •
gen(y response bases (911, fire, ambu-
lance, ('t('.) he required to have it
weather radio in it suitable location to
permit the monitoring of weather
warnings.
Sifto Canada (:orlx►ration:
■ 7 (;O11Sicivr tilt' use 111 (;/'lural Control
of a marine radio with a trained and
licensed operator to permit the moni-
toring of marine weather warnings.
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