As a former paramedic, Greg Gorecki knows a thing or two about survival.
He now uses his skills, along with several friends with the military and experience in wildlife survival, to help others prepare for just about anything, up to and including the end of the world as we know it.
Gorecki started a school to prepare for and survive the apocalypse in the Edmonton area. He says students will learn skills that will be useful in the worst case scenario: the fall of society.
“This will be a situation where people are turning on each other,” Gorecki told CTV News. “When the situation is so difficult and so desperate that the government or local services are not able to handle it all.”
Sounds exaggerated?
Just a few years ago, the idea of a global pandemic that nearly halted Canada’s health care system, or the idea of a full-scale modern war in Europe, might have sounded like a fabrication. Now these things are a reality.
“This is not the end,” Gorecki warns. “There will be more emergencies. There will be more pandemics. And the better prepared you are, the better you are. You know, chance favors a prepared mind.
So far, the school has conducted two rounds of courses. It’s a two-day engagement over the weekend, with part of the class in Edmonton and part of the field in the Lake Kucking area.
Subjects taught include compass and navigation, healing serious wounds, suturing and other first aid, water purification, lighting a fire without a match or lighter, building shelters, and even how to protect yourself from chemicals or radiation carried. in the air.
The skills taught at Gorecki’s school will not only be useful at the end of the day. Many of the lessons include valuable knowledge for tourists and campers.
“It makes me more confident and capable in the wild,” said Nigel Watts, a student.
Watts is an avid camper. He says the skills he learned in the course will be useful in the wild, but he also wants to be prepared for any major disaster.
“Now we know, given the last two years, with quarantines and all that, and now that Ukraine is happening, you don’t really know what’s coming.
The school is planning more courses this month. The price is $ 280 per person. Gorecki says all refugees from Ukraine who make their way to the Edmonton area can take the course for free.
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