Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members explaining to the residents about the exercise
Residents implementing In-Place-Protection (IPP) in their homes.
The CEP poster displayed on the residents’ notice board
Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister of State (Finance) & (Transport) was the Guest-of-Honour at the Serangoon Preparedness (EP) Day held at Kingsgrove Condominium on 20 May 2007 (Sunday). (Photos above taken by the CEP Secretariat)
TODAY - Chemical attack drill in condo
PHOTO COURTESY OF PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION WEE TECK HIAN
DEFENCE: Kingsgrove residents sealing up their windows in yesterday’s exercise.
Monday • May 21, 2007
Jasmine Yin
jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg
WHEN the siren sounded at about 4pm, about 100 residents of Kingsgrove Condominium hurried to their respective master bedrooms, which come with attached bathrooms, and got to work sealing off all openings with garbage bags and masking tape.
The mock poisonous gas attack was the first "in-place protection" drill to be held in a private housing estate. The exercise sought to teach building occupants how to reduce their potential exposure to a hazardous chemical release.
In preparation, Kingsgrove residents attended training conducted by the Singapore Civil Defence Force over a few weekends last month to learn skills such as fire-fighting and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Emergency response teams overseeing areas such as traffic management and first aid were also set up among the residents and 35 trained grassroots leaders mobilised.
Yesterday's mock attack followed a simulated suicide bombing at Chomp Chomp hawker centre last year.
