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With a comprehensive Emergency
Plan (PDF) in place, the City of Toronto
is prepared to effectively handle all emergencies. The Emergency
Plan details the methods in which the City mobilizes its resources
during a crisis and ensures all City organizations, emergency response
services, and key agencies are fully
aware of their respective roles and responsibilities during an emergency.
The goal is to respond and reduce the impact of a public emergency
and restore the municipality to a normal state as soon as possible.
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Highlights of Toronto's emergency plan
- Comprehensive
emergency management programming
- A standardized
method of notifying key officials and staff when an emergency
response is
required
- A procedure
for declaring an emergency and the legal authority to mount an
appropriate response
- The structure
to allow a coordinated multi-agency response
- A dedicated
Emergency Operations Centre from which to manage the entire emergency
- A mechanism
by which to establish Evacuee Centres
- Coordination
of assistance both from and to neighbouring municipalities and
senior levels of government
- Coordination
of assistance from local volunteer agencies, such as the Red Cross
and St. John Ambulance
- Coordination
and control of community resources, such as heavy equipment, buses
for Evacuation, other transportation needs, and food and shelter
for evacuees
- Regular exercises
to test both the plan and its components

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