*** The Environmental Emergency Response System, Inc. ***
                      * (TEERS-Canada) *

Subject:   New International Training Facility and Logistics Base
  Date:    Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:59:27 -0800
  From:    David Pottier <dpottier@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
    To:    sar-l@islandnet.com, AmerRescue@aol.com (Douglas F. Copp),


                            Press Release
January 22, 1997
Penhold, Alberta

A humanitarian group, The Environmental Emergency Response System, Inc.
(TEERS-Canada) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Harvest Park
International College in Penhold, Alberta. Through this memoranda
TEERS-Canada has opened a new International Rescue Team Logistics Centre
and Materials Storage Facility and a base of operations for its Canadian
and International Rapid Deployment Rescue Teams. This new location
provides the team with a 5500 foot runway giving C-130 Hercules the
ability to `park and load' at our front door.

In the fall of 1997, TEERS-Canada will open a new International Disaster
Training School on the campus of Harvest Park International College.
Courses offered at the school will include Disaster Management Training
and the training of Rapid Deployment Teams. The training facility provides
on-site housing for up to 1850 students and a cafeteria style dinning for
up to 600 per sitting as well as recreational facilities such as a
gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool, soccer fields, track, etc

The aim of this new International Disaster Management Training facility is
to teach a uniform standard of disaster management utilizing the latest
technologies and equipment. Standardization will allow the international
rescue community to integrate rescue efforts for a more rapid and effective
response.

Working with Harvest Park International College, TEERS-Canada's foreign
students will take additional courses in English language and all students
will take courses in cultural sensitivity and foundation courses in the
languages of countries most often affected by major disasters.

Instructors and Sessional Lecturers for the school will be selected from
the international community and will be some of the best in the world in
their given fields.

In a statement to the Red Deer Advocate, the Executive Director of
TEERS-Canada said, "We plan to make this one of the toughest and most
compehensive training facilities in the world.  By the time students
complete their training here they will have been taken to the maximum of
their physical and mental endurance. They will know they have been to hell
and back."

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