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Canada’s Increase in Wildfires – Climate Change Consequences
Canada Increase in Wildfires - Climate Change Consequences In spending hundreds to thousands of hours every year in disaster response support, we witness the measurable difference our Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOST) makes [...]
Deploying Mass Water Suppression Systems for Wildfires – New Wildland Firefighting & Structure Protection Equipment
Deploying Mass Water Suppression Systems for Wildfires - New Wildland Firefighting & Structure Protection Equipment Deploying mass water cannon and mass water suppression systems that can be rapidly deployed and do the [...]
Canadian Incident Management Assistance Team – IMAT Canada
Canadian Incident Management Assistance Team - IMAT Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT) coordinate with provincial, municipal, district, First Nations, Metis Settlements, or territorial leaders to identify gaps and coordinate/connect with volunteer resources, supplies, [...]
Canadian Incident Command System Forms List in PDF – Canada
Incident Command System (ICS) Forms - Canada #Canada - Incident Command System (ICS) Forms are designed to assist emergency response personnel in the use of ICS and corresponding documentation during incident operations. Use the most [...]
Emergency Management in BC – Reference Manual
Emergency Management in BC - Reference Manual Emergency Management British Columbia (EMBC), under the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, has developed an online Emergency Management Training Manual designed to build a [...]
#SMEM – Social Media Emergency Management – Crisis Response Efficiency Tools
#SMEM - Social Media Emergency Management - Crisis Response Efficiency Tools #SMEM - Social Media Emergency Management - Social media exploded as a go-to resource & tool since 2011, allowing emergency, disaster, [...]
History & Background of Incident Command System in Canada
History & Background of Incident Command System in Canada ICS/IMS Canada – Written February 2015 Background The development of the Incident Command System (ICS) was the result of hard-won lessons learned by responders [...]
14 Principals Strengthening Incident Command System Structure As Management Characteristics – ICS
14 Principals Strengthening Incident Command System Structure As Management Characteristics - ICS The Incident Command System (ICS) is a widely applicable management system designed to enable flexible, effective, efficient all-hazards incident management. By integrating [...]
I-100 Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS) – Canada – Student Reference Notes
I-100 Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS) - Canada - Student Reference Notes Introduction to Incident Command System, I-100 has been developed by an interagency and inter-jurisdictional development group with guidance from the [...]
Incident Command System (ICS) Canada
Incident Command System (ICS) Canada The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized on-site management system designed to enable effective, efficient incident management by integrating a combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating [...]
2018 British Columbia Wildfires
2018 British Columbia Wildfires By the end of June, 2018, there had been more than 560 wildfires in British Columbia,[source] with direct and indirect costs still being calculated. The Comstock Lake fire was [...]
2017 British Columbia Wildfires – Provincial State of Emergency
2017 British Columbia Wildfires - Provincial State of Emergency On July 6, 2017, a two-hectare wildfire began west of 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada marking the beginning of the record breaking 2017 [...]
BCfiremap.com – Fire Maps, Roads, & Social Media –A Hot Tool for BC Wildfire Travellers
Every summer in British Columbia, along with long days, sunshine, heat, and little rain comes an all-too-familiar reality: hundreds of wildfires. Some of them affect only uninhabited regions in BC, but many threaten communities, [...]
About The 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire aka “The Beast”
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people [...]