Topic 5: The Recovery Process
Case Study: The Lockerbie disaster
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Damage caused in Lockerbie by the crash of Pan Am flight 103 Source: www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/sherwood_crescent.jpg accessed September 2010 At three minutes past seven on the evening of December 21st 1988 a large explosion occurred inside the cargo bay of a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet that was flying 9450 meters (31 000 feet) over Carlisle in Northern England. There were 243 passengers on board and 16 crew. All persons on board were killed and the debris and bodies were scattered over 2000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of Dumfries and Galloway, the Boarders Region and Lothian region within Scotland and the Cumbria and Northumberland areas of England. The major parts of the fuselage fell onto the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland, population of 3 500, destroying 21 homes, killing 11 people and injuring another 5 persons. Gas, water and electricity to Lockerbie were disrupted and the main road through the area was blocked. Local Government played a major role in response and recovery effort that was mounted to deal with the emergency. View Video clip on Lockerbie. The video clip provided here deals with key issues in the community response. Video created by the Emergency Planning College, somewhere between 1989 and 1992. Click HERE to view video on Lockerbie
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The local authority instituted a policy of “the community first” and the community responded. Local residents accommodated evacuees in their homes, provided food and refreshment for emergency workers, provided home baking, laundry services, distributed information, accompanied bereaved visitors and were involved in cleaning the affected areas and schools. Would the same thing happen in your local area? What could be done to encourage this kind of response? |
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EMA Manual 10: Recovery. Chapter 16: Physical Recovery pp. 97 -102. The EMA Manual series is located through the tab on the homepage of this Study Guide CD. 
WFP Distributes Food to Pakistan's Flood Victims Pakistanis affected by their country's widespread, torrential floods receive wheat flour and other provisions from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Alipur, in the Muzaffargarh district of Punjab Province. Source: UN Photo/WFP/Amjad Jamal; 18 August 2010; Alipur, Pakistan; Photo #443932 www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?id=443/443932 |
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