FIRST Response team heads for Padang
Ambacang hotel Padang. Pic: Toby Zerna. Courtesy AAP
As the scale of Wendesday’s earthquake in West Sumatra unfolds, a small team from FEBC, already in Indonesia for a FIRST Response trial and workshop, is heading to Padang to set up an emergency radio response. FIRST Response is a ministry of FEB Radio International designed to set up an emergency radio station within 72 hours of a disaster. Studies show that following a disaster, where communications infrastructure is often destroyed, radio can save lives, providing essential information and life-saving messages. Feba deployed a FIRST Response team to Bihar, North India, during the widespread floods there in October 2008.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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