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