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Are you an Emergency Manager?
Download our poster Advice for Emergency Managers from the First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership. Click on image to download the file as a PDF. This file can be printed in colour as large as 11x17 (tabloid) size.
Resources for Individuals and Families
This website provides essential resources to help you and your family prepare for an emergency or disaster. It offers guidance on building an emergency kit for your home and vehicle, preparing your pets, getting ready to evacuate, downloading useful apps, and much more.
The Canadian Red Cross offers essential tips on its website to help you better prepare for and recover from emergencies.
How can you prepare for a wildfire?
The Alberta government created this video to help you prepare for wildfires. Learn the essential steps to become better prepared and how to respond effectively in case of an emergency.
What goes in your emergency kit?
The Alberta government created this video to guide you through simple steps for building your emergency kit, ensuring you're better prepared for any emergency or disaster.
FireSmart Canada is a national program dedicated to helping Canadians enhance their neighbourhood's resilience to wildfires and minimize their negative impacts. Click the link above to discover solutions, resources, tools, and programs for wildfire risk reduction and loss prevention.
Download the Alberta FireSmart poster Last–Minute Checklist for Protecting Your Home and Property from Wildfire. Click on image to download the file as a PDF.
The FireSmart Canada fact sheet provides guidelines to help you FireSmart your home, offering tips for upgrading and maintaining your roof, gutters, vents, siding, decks, and fencing. It’s crucial to consider every part of your home to reduce wildfire risk. Click the image to download the PDF file and learn more.
Weather warnings
Alert Ready is Canada’s emergency alerting system, delivering critical and potentially life-saving alerts to Canadians via television, radio, and LTE-connected wireless devices. To learn more, click on the link above.
The Canadian portal for wildland fire weather and smoke information offers BlueSky Canada smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information, and the BlueSky Playground. Click the link above for high-resolution, interactive forecasts of hourly, daily average, and daily maximum concentrations of PM2.5 smoke particles at ground level from wildfires.
Click the link above to explore Alberta's government page detailing alert level descriptions, the process of issuing and distributing alerts, and resources related to Alert Ready.
Community Resources
The First Nations' Emergency Services Society (FNESS) of British Colombia provides community-based Emergency Management guidance, support and assistance to BC First Nations communities. The FNESS Emergency Management (EM) Department created a list of Wildfire Resources - Before, During and After a Wildfire (2022). Click on the link above to download the file.
Stronger Together: A Toolkit for First Nations-Municipal Community Economic Development Partnerships
This toolkit was created to provide a framework for First Nation and municipal partners to jointly establish an emergency evacuation hosting operational plan. Click on the link above to download the file.
Joint Emergency Management Steering Committee (JEMS) Service Level Evacuation Standards
The JEMS manual describes considerations for the evacuation of, care for and return of First Nations in Ontario. The manual highlights expectations for the First Nation, host communities, provincial and federal partners, and non-governmental organizations. The document also details the responsibilities of each partner during hosting operations. The document outlines expected costs, financial approvals, checklists, job descriptions, forms, and definitions. Click on the link above to download the file.
Have You Been Displaced Due to a Wildfire?
Support for Albertans Affected By Wildfire: Help in a Stressful Time
Helping People to Cope and Heal After the Wildfires
Government of Alberta
We respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people.