Emergency services evolve at MUHC campus

The Gazette, September 6th 2011 -- Responding to an emergency is difficult at the best of times. Montreal’s firefighters and other emergency responders need to know the city’s streets and buildings inside out in order to ensure that not a second is wasted when someone calls 911. But what if one area of the city were constantly changing, shifting and becoming more complex? That is the challenge faced by emergency services at the Glen Campus construction site. Every week, new pathways are formed, new floors added, and new hallways built – and on top of this, there’s the prospect of someone getting injured high above the ground or being pinned beneath a large piece of equipment.