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PAGE A4 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 11,2002 www.durhamregion.çom Tragedy of Sept. 11 touched everyone TRAGEDY from page 1 "We reacted immediately by'altcring our security posture. In the ensuing days, hours, weeks and months, we enhanced enhanced our screening Of people, parcels and vehicles into our nuclear stations," he says. "Security was rigorous before, but now it is much more rigorous." In reaction to Sept. 11, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission ordered all nuclear facilities in Canada to enhance their security measures. OPG responded by entering into an agreement with the Durham Regional Police soon after to have one of its units stationed at the gates of Pickering and Darlington nuclear nuclear stations around the clock. Armed personnel remain in place today at both stations. Mr. Weaver says enhanced safety measures put in place after Sept. 11 will remain forever more. OPG has reacted to other worldwide events before but usually of a nuclear nature like the Chernobyl Crisis in the Ukraine in 1986, he says. Mr. Weaver can't recall a terrorist attack ever threatening threatening security at OPG like it did on Sept. 11. For Durham Regional Police Chief Kevin Me Alpine, the fact two of his officers officers are stationed at OPG is a constant reminder of how life has been altered by the terrorist attacks. The contract with the nuclear provider will become permanent permanent in the coming months, he says. "I think all of us got a wake-up call that day," Chief McAlpine says. Since then, information-sharing among police services across Canada and the United States has been fine- tuned to work with agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he says. Durham Regional Police now have an officer on the provincial terrorism unit and an RCMP special international unit. With the anthrax scare that followed Sept. 11, local police services arc also educating their officers about handling hazardous materials as part of a provincewide directive, Chief McAlpine says. "We're going to be getting bio-haz- ard kits from the Province soon," he • adds. "It's just a matter of making sure our officers have them when they need it." Local fire departments are also turning turning to hazardous material training and a greater emphasis on emergency planning planning with help from both provincial and federal levels of government, says Os- hawa Fire Chief Milt Wilson, who - is also president of the Ontario Association Association of Fire Chiefs. At Oshawa Municipal Airport, the only municipal flight centre in Durham, additional security measures haven't been introduced. Rather, the airport has done everything since Sept. 11 to make sure staff are aware of security procedures procedures already in place, says manager JeffHuntis. That includes observing closely any unusual activity or people shuffling around its tarmac, he says. The only other time he can recall planes being grounded on such a scale was in the early 1960s to test North America's air defence system and that was only one day. The Ministry of Transportation-ordered Transportation-ordered aviation shutdown last September lasted three days. Not much has changed in terms of screening at the Canadian Flight Academy, which operates operates out of the Oshawa airport and offers flight training on both twin and turbine engine planes. General manager Dave Hutzel says the flight school doesn't have the facilities facilities to screen its own students but relies on immigration officials in the issuing of visas. The Oshawa flight school doesn't get a lot of international students anyway anyway - only about three to six out of roughly 100 students each year, he says. And most are from the United Kingdom, Kingdom, where flight time is more than twice as expensive as it is in Canada, Mr. Hutzel says. Some security measures measures have increased as a result of regulations regulations from Transport Canada. For instance, instance, no one is allowed in the hangar without a flight pennit. Insurance rates at flight schools have also gone up, says Mr. Hutzel. "We do require our students to show a greater level of seriousness now," he adds. "They must provide a $2,000 deposit upfront, which they can only access if they've logged 50 per cent of their flying time. It used to be $1,000 before Sept. 11." NEW YORK - Dave Marquardt, an Ajax native working in New 11 ; York, was working a block away from the World Trade Center : r ' ! when the first plane hit. Above, he captured this image of the sec-',' ond plane just after impact. On page five he captured the city skyline skyline after the collapse of both towers. LAWN & GARDEN Backyard Play Forts mmm h;Ü ! 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