Emergency Management Ontario is the Office of Emergency Management for the province of Ontario responsible for planning for and responding to and recovering from all man-made or natural disasters within the province.[1] The agency is under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Solicitor General. The agency's mandate is governed by the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act of 1990.[2] EMO works with City of Toronto Emergency Management Office (OEM), other similar provincial agencies across Canada as well as Public Safety Canada.
Geographical Divisions
With the vastness of the province, EMO is divided into geographical regions or Emergency Management Sector Areas that have 40 to 50 municipalities in their area of coverage:[3]
- Amethyst - covering Northwestern Ontario
- Albany - covering most of Northeastern Ontario
- Bruce - covering the Bruce Peninsula and regions within the Bruce Escarpment outside of the Golden Horseshoe
- Capital - covering areas near Ottawa region
- Golden Horseshoe - covering areas around the Greater Toronto Area and beyond
- Killarney - covering the southern end of Northeastern Ontario
- Lakes - covering areas east of Georgian Bay
- Loyalist - covering most of Eastern Ontario outside of Ottawa region
- Severn - covering the areas east of Golden Horseshoe
- St. Clair - covering the areas of Southwestern Ontario
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