“Alberta - A Province Prepared” Alberta Emergency Management Agency The “Agency”

“Alberta - A Province Prepared”

Alberta Emergency Management Agency

The “Agency”

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“Public Safety is a Government of Alberta

Priority”

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• “Accelerate the implementation of the Emergency Preparedness Initiative.”

• Minister’s Mandate

Ministry Priority

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Life Safety

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The Agency’s MandateWe are accountable and responsible to our government and to Albertans for effectively ensuring the protection of people, their property, their communities, their industry, and their environment from the effects of emergency events.

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Our Mandate Means

• We will build partnerships

• We will build capacity

• We will involve everyone

“Joined Up System”

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The Agency

• Combining the Fire Commissioner’s Office and Emergency Management Alberta is a good start

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Reality

• Alberta has a strong framework

• Based largely on the 3 “Cs”…..

Communicate, Coordinate and Collaborate

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Whatever it takes!

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100 Day Plan

• Mandate

• Priorities

• Strategies

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Preparedness

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Priority Initiative

Modernize the

Emergency Public Warning System

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Expectations

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Challenges

Agency will be more “involved” while enhancing the system for EM

• Starting within government

• Involving community and industry

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Weather

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Reaction

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Response

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Recovery

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“THE SOUND OF A SIREN IS THE SOUND OF A SYSTEM FAILURE”

E. David Hodgins

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QUESTIONS