HTL Steyr was the first school in Upper Austria to practice for a blackout

“The probability that a blackout will actually occur is very low,” said Karin Nosko, who is responsible for disaster control at the municipality in Steyr, in an interview with the Steyrer Zeitung a few weeks ago. However, if it actually happens, the effects will be enormous and the public sector will then not be able to provide for all of the city’s almost 38,000 residents.

The plans that have since been drawn up by the magistrate together with the Steyr education region and Steyr’s secondary schools stipulate that in the event of a blackout, students will not continue to be looked after at school, but should instead make their way home in an orderly manner. The HTL Steyr was now the first school in Upper Austria to face this crisis scenario and practice for emergencies with its almost 900 young people.

“When we were creating our concept, we quickly came across the problem of what we should do with the city’s many guest students,” says Nosko, “because if all the traffic lights fail due to a blackout, then the traffic in Steyr will soon collapse. ” An emergency plan therefore had to be drawn up for students who do not live in Steyr or in a boarding school. This plans to bring the “commuter” students to three collection points on the outskirts of the city. Depending on where the young people live, they are located at the TIC in the Stadtgut for students from Linz-Land and Lower Austria, at the Solarfocus company at the Garsten power plant for those from the Ennstal and at BMD near the Steyr Hospital for those from the Steyrtal and the surrounding area Bad Hall.

“I was pleasantly surprised, especially by the discipline that everyone showed,” said HTL director Sandra Losbichler after the exercise on Monday afternoon. A lot of things worked, only small things still needed to be revised. “Only a few students arrived at the wrong destination,” says Losbichler, “and we had a few young people who took part in class with crutches; in the event of a blackout, teachers would have to go to the self-help bases in old people’s and nursing homes to be accompanied.”

In any case, the test run worked, and all of the approximately 600 students who did not live in Steyr arrived back at the HTL unscathed in the end.

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