Prepared Among Us - Citizens Train to Be First Responders in Neighborhoods
The Columbian › March 17, 2005
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Curtis Achziger still remembers the chaos that ensued when a tornado hit Vancouver more than 30 years ago.
"We were woefully unprepared for what happened on that April day," he said from his Northeast Hazel Dell home.See the full content of this document
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Prepared Among Us - Citizens Train to Be First Responders in Neighborhoods
The rare twister rolled through town in 1972. Achziger watched an ambulance driving on its rims as the tires flattened. There was also a lack of coordination in treating and transporting all the injured, Achziger said.
Those memories are one reason Achziger has trained to be part of his neighborhood's Citizens Emergency Respo...See the full content of this document
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