Emergency Services

The Municipality is required to designate a Community Emergency Management Coordinator (CEMC). Yvon Sauvé, also Fire Chief of the Municipality, is the Township of East Hawkesbury’s Community Emergency Management Coordinator. He is responsible for all aspects of emergency management in the Township. As required under the Act, a Community Emergency Management Program Committee composed of the Mayor, Deputy-Mayor, CEMC and members of the various departments and services in the Township has been established in 2005. The CEMC, in conjunction with the committee shall conduct an annual review of the municipality’s emergency management program and make recommendations to Council for its revision if necessary.

 

As per the recommendations of the Emergency Management Program Committee, Council adopted a revised Emergency Response Plan on December 10, 2007 under By-Law No. 2007-64.

In a letter dated January 29, 2009, the Ontario’s Deputy Minister for Emergency Planning and Management, confirmed that in 2008 the Township of East Hawkesbury fulfilled the municipal requirements of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act and Ontario Regulation 380/04.

National Emergency Preparedness Week is May 3-9, 2009. The Township of East Hawkesbury together with approximately 70% of municipalities participated in EP Week. Public education remains a priority for our Municipality to be a Safer Community…