{"id":11070,"date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/news-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-how-bc-ferries-handles-emergencies\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:00:00","slug":"news-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-how-bc-ferries-handles-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/news-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-how-bc-ferries-handles-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"News: A behind-the-scenes look at how BC Ferries handles emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global News - June 4, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Video available <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2035522\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-how-bc-ferries-handles-emergencies\/\">ici pour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To thousands of passengers on BC Ferries every week, Michelle Harbott is just a worker in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>But if an emergency breaks, it becomes all hands on deck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t really realize what we\u2019re capable of. We are the paramedics, we\u2019re the police, we\u2019re the security on the ship,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Harbott was one of the many crew members taking part in extensive drills on the Queen of New Westminster this week. In detailed simulations, they prepare for everything from people jumping overboard to large fires.<\/p>\n<p>In total, they now have the equivalent of 15,000 training days on their 34 vessels, well above federal standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing this for about three years. The feedback we get from the crews\u2026are awesome,\u201d says Captain Jamie Marshall, Vice-President of Fleet Operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety doesn\u2019t take a back seat to anything. It\u2019s our most important thing,\u201d added Chief Officer Brad Kramer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global News - June 4, 2015 Video available here. To thousands of passengers on BC Ferries every week, Michelle Harbott is just a worker in the cafeteria. But if an emergency breaks, it becomes all hands on deck. \u201cThey don\u2019t really realize what we\u2019re capable of. We are the paramedics, we\u2019re the police, we\u2019re the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}