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Given the success of the pilot, PF&R committed to continuing NET. To introduce NETs as a new response asset in widespread emergencies, City Council heard a report on the program and PF&R introduced the new NET members. Over 70 graduates, wearing NET safety hard hats and vests, attended. City Council members shared in presenting the ID badge to and shaking the hand of every NET member. NET had arrived! | Given the success of the pilot, PF&R committed to continuing NET. To introduce NETs as a new response asset in widespread emergencies, City Council heard a report on the program and PF&R introduced the new NET members. Over 70 graduates, wearing NET safety hard hats and vests, attended. City Council members shared in presenting the ID badge to and shaking the hand of every NET member. NET had arrived! | ||
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|An estimated 8.7 - 9.2 magnitude megathrust earthquake strikes the Pacific Northwest coast, producing a tsunami that washes up to the coast of Japan. Though local First Nations groups in area pass on knowledge of the event through oral tradition, it will be another 286 years before scientists grasp the implications of the quake. | |||
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