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The PrepE Emergency Preparedness Campaign was developed as a means to educate our citizens that they have a personal responsibility to be prepared for emergency situations. That by being prepared, they and their families will be safe.
The City of Vaughan Emergency Management Program has developed three new video public safety messages starring PrepE our mascot. PrepE's mission is to be prepared for every emergency; everywhere; every time. She has three key messages
- Take Action: implement the necessary steps to be prepared including; making a family emergency plan, making a home escape plan, identify meeting locations and put together a 72 hour kit.
- Tune In: monitor news and weather reports
- Know What Can Happen: …
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This article highlights enhancements to the Ontario Emergency Public Warning System.
Environment Canada warnings will now include messaging from Emergency Management Ontario(EMO) telling you how to stay safe when severe weather threatens. These enhanced weather warnings will be distributed widely to the media and will be posted to the Environment Canada website. EMO will continue to forward severe weather warnings through our social media channels, but will no longer issue separate Red Alerts for tornadoes. Instead, we have created a new web subscriber service called "Severe…
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I was disappointed to see on the news Sunday morning that riots broke out in London, ON following St. Patrick's day partying. It causes one to question if your emergency plan is capable of responding to such an incident? More importantly, is your emergency management program addressing it from a prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery perspective?
Here are some links to recent news stories.
The Globe and Mail Sunday March 18th - St. Patrick's Day mob in London, Ont., torches TV van, battles police
The Vancouver Sun - St. Patrick's Day riot reeks havoc on London, Ontario
CBC News- St. Patrick's Day partying turns violent in London, Ont.
CTV News- St. Patrick's Day party turns violent in London, Ont.
CHCH News- Riot breaks out in London
CTV London News- Riots After St Patrick's Day Celebrations
When reviewing the above links and…
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There are municipalities which lead in providing emergency management service to their residents and businesses and others which resist meeting even the minimum legislated requirements. It is encouraging to see a municipality promoting a project which benefits not only their community emergency management program but Canadian emergency management in general. Cumberland BC is such a community. See what they are up to!
Attached to this article is the February edition of Cumberland Now which you can read on line or download to your PC or e-reader. It is a special edition entitled Bridging the Gap Between Disaster Research and Practice which contains a wealth of informative articles written by respected leaders in the Canadian emergency management community.
The Village of Cumberland BC, identified in their strategic plan, the need to enhance communication between Mayor, Council, staff and the general public…
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We are looking for a Community Risk Assessment computer program. We are aware of RHAVE no longer being supported and the replacement is an on-line program which would require entries to be done twice, once on our stand alone database and once on the on-line database. If someone is aware of a database for risk assessment, we would be interested in looking at it.
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The non-refundable tax credit is available to any volunteer firefighter who serves at least 200 hours per year at one or more fire departments beginning on January 1, 2011. This provides good recognition and an incentive to volunteer ones services. What are the chances of expanding this credit to many other volunteers who support our emergency management programs?
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Debate over a minister's use of government aircraft is distracting Parliament from more vital concerns.
The Defence Minister's use of a Cormorant helicopter for debatably personal reasons is both a problem and a solution for the government. Every day that Peter MacKay's travels occupy the headlines is another day when real issues related to search and rescue on one of the world's largest land masses go unreported.
Recently a SARtech died in the process of saving others. We presume that the reasons for his death are being investigated. But that is presuming a lot ... and in the sub-Arctic…
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An emergency management organization's web site should provide residents with certain basic information to help them prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. A recent study of emergency management web sites identified that many f them lack important information and ask the question if a uniform template or standard would help.
This study focused on the uniformity of Web sites operated by local emergency management agencies (EMAs) as they pertain to the availability of relevant emergency preparedness and response information. Of the 3,128 counties (or county equivalents) in the United States, we found Internet homepages for 1,612 local EMAs (51.5%). We reviewed each homepage to document the presence (or absence) of nine elements deemed to be essential for effective communications during emergency or disaster…
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I came across an article on Beaumont Communications Inc. blog BEAUBLOG that identifies innovative use of technology to help protect residents who may be at more risk during an emergency than the general population.
Here is a link to the article.
If you have any further information on this project or practice please share that information by commenting on this article. Thanks to Phil Gibson with Beaumont Communications Inc. for sharing this information.
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FEMA offers a "Fundamentals of Emergency Management" course which may be of interest to some PTSC-Online viewers. There is no charge for the downloadable course materials and tests.
Here is a link which takes you to the FEMA web site that outlines the course.
Course Overview
This course is the first introductory course in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Emergency Management Institute's (EMI) Independent Study Professional Development Series (PDS). Its goal is to introduce you to the fundamentals of emergency management (EM) as an integrated system, and how its resources and capabilities can be networked together for all hazards.
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- Ontario Public Warni…I subscribed to both the e-mail and text message alerts to see how the system worked and they appeared to work well with the warnings issued last evening. With my Blackberry on the Rogers system I was required to subscribe to an e-mail to text message service, even though I already subscribe to text messaging. They have not been able to tell me if…
- Cumberland Now - Eme…Marg has researched the topic extensively while pursuing her studies and I support her conclusions. Legislating minimum municipal emergency management standards should help, but for those who want to see their programs improved before it is legislated, I would like to suggest some alternatives.
If your community has a chemical industry which… - Cumberland Now - Eme…Hi Randy, thanks for your question. In my research, elected officials, CAOs and Emergency Managers all agreed that there is "apathy" toward preparing for disasters from elected officials and the public at large. Decision makers have trouble and challenges spending money on potential risks that they have never encountered and don't believe will…
- Community Risk Asses…Dear Patricia,
Good day .
It will be highly appreciated if you could share the HIRA work book. I am trying to enhance my knowledge on HiRA ,particularly on Natural Disaster. Iseek your your kind assistance.
Best regards.
Saiful, N.M.
Email : nasrulsaiful974@gmail.com - Cumberland Now - Eme…Marg - interestiing article Lots to mull over....
For Recommendation 1 - I'm interested in what you mean by "overcome apathy".
Can you give some specifics for what this means, and why it's important to achieve a better outcome?
Thanks!
- Randy - Cumberland Now - Eme…Bill, thank you very much for posting "Special Edition: Bridging the Gap Between Disaster Research and Practice". This is current information and wholly Canadian content! I am confident that Emergency Managers coast-to-coast will be able to utilize this information in their programs, and hopefully it will aid in building a stronger bridge…
- Community Risk Asses…Thanks for posting this. I had a look at your web site and it looks like it might be what we are looking for. I will look more in depth at it.
- Community Risk Asses…We have developed At-Risk - a risk assessment methodology and software specifically for communities; and we have used it successfully in the past 10 years in a number of communities in Ontario. We are currently working at making it available on-line. The software can be customized for a specific user. There is more information on our website www.ze…
- Community Risk Asses…The 2012 HIRA and HIRA workbook have been approved at this point, I am just waiting on getting the translation (another couple of weeks at most) finished before I can send it out but I will make sure that you get a copy. The workbook in particular was designed to be used at a community level so hopefully that will help you.
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