Ten preparedness modules will be distributed among the five municipalities in the coming months to strengthen the municipalities’ operational preparedness, informs Naalakkersuisut.
A strengthening of Greenland preparedness is still underway. In a press release, Naalakkersuisut states that 10 emergency response modules are on their way to the country’s municipalities.
The modules are provided by the Emergency Management Agency, which has assisted Greenland’s emergency services and Naalakkersuisut with training in setting up and using them.
The modules contain e.g. of generators, tents, field rations, heating stove, sleeping bags, tables and chairs, lights and toilets, and the first module is expected to be delivered to Qeqertalik before the end of March. The other modules will be delivered continuously until summer, Naalakkersuisut informs.
Necessary to stand stronger
Naalakkersuisoq Peter Borg (D) states that the modules are the result of a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Social Security and Emergency Preparedness, which was entered into in January:
– We are already seeing the fruits of that agreement, when we can send emergency response modules out to the municipalities. It is necessary so that in the future we can stand even stronger if the power fails or when we have to notify the citizens that there is a critical incident, says Peter Borg, who is naalakkersuisoq for fishing, catching, agriculture, self-sufficiency and the environment.
According to Naalakkersuisut, the emergency modules can be used to create meeting places in fixed locations or in tents, if, for example, the power is out for an extended period of time. At the meeting points, citizens can meet and have something hot to eat and drink, meet their neighbors and charge their mobile phones.
