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Emergency Preparedness Week May 1-7, 2022
As part of Emergency Preparedness Week beginning Sunday, May 1, Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency’s (HRFE’s) Emergency Management Division is encouraging all residents to ‘be ready for anything’.
This past year has continued to highlight the importance of emergency preparedness, due to the impacts from COVID-19 and numerous severe weather events. The Emergency Management Division is focused on ensuring the safety and security of residents, their properties, and the environment by providing a prompt and coordinated response to an emergency situation.
Being ‘ready for anything’ requires three key steps:
- Know the risks
- Make a plan
- Have an emergency kit
Residents have a big role to play when it comes to ensuring their own safety. All residents should be prepared to be self-sufficient in their home for 72 hours in case of emergency.
To stay informed about emergencies and operations, residents are encouraged to sign up for hfxALERT, the municipality’s mass notification system. Subscribers may receive urgent and non-urgent notifications by phone, email, and/or text message. During emergencies, the municipality communicates with residents via public service announcements, web updates, social media (@hfxgov) and hfxALERT. Residents may also contact 311 for more information about emergency operations.
To support Emergency Preparedness Week, HRFE’s Emergency Management Division is running a contest to bring better awareness about being ‘ready for anything’.
Residents have the opportunity to win one of 10 emergency kits (approx. retail value $30). To participate in the contest, take the emergency preparedness quiz. Those who answer all questions correctly will be eligible for the draw. The draw will take place the week of May 9.
For more information on being prepared for an emergency, visit the HRFE Emergency Management web page.
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Contest
Via HRFE – May 1-7 is Emergency Preparedness Week. Take the quiz and enter our contest for a chance to win one of 10 emergency kits!
Link –
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EmergencyPreparednessWeek
