How We Responded To Disaster

Tsunami and aftermath, as seen from inside the Foreign Affairs consular bureau

Published January 26, 2005

Shortly before midnight on Dec.25, a media monitoring official keeping tabs on worldwide television, radio and newswire activity from an office in the Pearson building received an unusual warning. A wire story alerted that a massive tremor had occurred off the Indonesian coast. A consular officer delivered the news at home to Serge Paquette, Foreign Affairs' director of emergency services, who instructed the employee...

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