City students to get 200m yuan emergencies training center
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SCHOOL students will learn how to react if they find themselves caught up in a stampede at an emergencies training center to be built in the city.
This follows the tragedy at the Bund on New Year’s Eve, in which 36 people died and 49 were injured.
Simulations of earthquakes, fires and other emergencies will also be part of training at the 26,500-square-meter center to be built at Oriental Land in Qingpu district, education officials said yesterday.
Able to provide training for 220,000 people a year, it will be the first facility on such a scale in China.
Work is due to start on the 200 million yuan (US$32.2 million) center this year and construction should be complete by the end of next year.
The first courses, primarily aimed at students aged between 6 and 18, are set to begin in June 2017.
Shanghai Education Commission Deputy Director Gao Deyi said a 2010 blaze in a Jing’an District high-rise in which 58 people died and more than 100 were injured had first shown the need for the facility.
“The plan, aiming at promoting students’ capability of surviving disasters and emergency situations, was initiated after the fatal fire disaster in November 15, 2010, and seems more urgent following the New Year’s Eve stampede on the Bund,” said Gao.
Training will involve survival skills and emergency rescue in response to earthquakes, storms and other natural disasters, as well as fire, traffic accidents and evacuations, added Gao.
Simulations of dangerous situations plus animated games will be included in the training, said Gao.
While the center will mainly serve pupils, it is also planned to be open to the public.
Trapped on balcony
Several serious fires have occurred in local education institutions in recent years.
Four students from Shanghai Commercial College died after jumping from the sixth floor of a dormitory that was on fire in November 2008.
And a dormitory in Baoshan Campus of Shanghai University caught fire last June. Four students trapped on a balcony were rescued by firefighters.
Meanwhile, as the Spring Festival vacation nears, the commission has issued alerts to students of potential dangers outside school.
Areas covered include traffic sense, crowds, water, fire and fireworks.
Students are also asked to carry out inspections of potential hazards at home, designing and practicing escape scenarios, and to produce pamphlets with local traffic advice to distribute around their neighborhoods.
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