Residents along Port Moody’s north shore needn’t be alarmed if they see fire trucks heading up Ioco Road toward Imperial Oil’s Ioco terminal today, May 7.
A disaster isn’t happening.
But the company wants to be prepared should one ever occur.
Imperial is conducting an emergency exercise that includes a fire drill component.
“Emergency response preparedness is critical to ensuring that in the event of an actual incident, all necessary actions are taken to protect the public, environment and our people,” the company said in a statement, adding the exercise will involve trees bordering its 50-acre site at the end of Ioco Road being sprayed with water.
The terminal had been operated as a refinery since 1914 until it was shut down in 1995.
It now distributes bunker fuel that is shipped by rail to local and international customers.
