Emergency Planning

Be Prepared

Emergencies can happen at anytime and occur anywhere, sometimes without much warning. An emergency can force you to evacuate your neighbourhood or confine you to your home or workplace. It can leave you without basic services such as water, gas, electricity or a working telephone. Are you prepared?

Tornado Photographed over Amherstburg 2007

Although Ontario has effective emergency management legislation and programs, individuals and families play a vital role in preparing for times of crisis when emergency services and other government resources may be strained. It is important that individuals and families prepare to take care of themselves for at least three days immediately after or during an emergency.Individuals and families are best able to cope when they have taken the time to prepare before an emergency happens.

Emergency Preparedness For Your Family

 Would you know what to do if an emergency occurred?  Would your child, alone at home after school, know the proper procedures to follow if the weather suddenly turned threatening?

These are the type of questions you need to ask when preparing your family emergency plan.  Please click on the image below to find out more information to help your family prepare.

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Reverse 911

The County of Essex has implemented a telephone emergency notification system, known by its trade name of Reverse 911, which permits our emergency services and coordinators to notify a large number of affected residents and businesses in specific areas, in the event of incidents such as boil water advisories, chemical spills, fires, floods, etc. The town of Amherstburg participates in its use, to assist in notification with other means (siren, system).For more information regarding this tool which assists in notifying the public click

COMMUNITY ALERTING SYSTEM

Amherstburg is covered by a series of sirens which enhance alerting in the event of an extreme emergency. Test of sirens occurs the last Friday of each month at 12 noon.  If there is an emergency that could pose a serious threat to the community, sirens will be activated in areas where immediate action by the public is required. The sirens will emit a loud, pulsing sound.

For more information on this system and other alerting tools click to download this pamphlet.