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   Emergency Management Ontario has been working with the Municipality to complete all the requirements to have an Emergency Management Program in place for the Municipality by December 31st, 2004. (Provincially Mandated) Should you have any questions concerning our emergency management program, feel free to call the Municipal Clerk, Susan Smith at 1-807-868-2020.

   The Township of Hornepayne is presently having an Emergency Response Plan drafted to replace our existing plan. This plan is used by local first responders (Council/Fire/Ambulance/Police/etc) as a guide should we have an emergency.

  A requirement of the Emergency Management Program is to have a Strategic Plan for Public Awareness in our Community. The municipality will be sending out information sheets/brochures for the public in billings from the municipal office throughout the year. We hope this information will be helpful to our local residents. Please keep this information in a safe place (i.e. fridge/freezer) to refer to should we have a local emergency.

   The first information we would like to make available to the public is a checklist for your own personal use, you and your family will need to be evacuated during an emergency.

CHECKLIST: 

   Each person or family being evacuated will be requested to take the following supplies to sustain them during their journey:

  one blanket per person

  air mattress if available

  change of warm clothing, raincoat and windbreaker

  enough ready-to-eat food, such as sandwiches, fruit and cooked

          meat to last twelve hours

   thermos bottle containing a hot beverage

   drinking cups

   a flashlight and a spare set of batteries

   one piece of luggage per person, preferably a suitcase which

          will serve as a seat

   cigarettes, tobacco, matches and/or lighter

   towel, soap, toothbrush and other toilet articles

   Kleenex or toilet paper

   Money to meet contingencies

   Identification such as drivers license or birth certificate

   Address book with phone numbers of family and friends

   A book, magazine or playing cards

   Prescribed medications

   Eyeglasses

          print this checklist and keep it handy

Be READY to EVACUATE

IF THE EMERGENCY IS SERIOUS ENOUGH, YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AND GO TO A NEARBY EVACUATION CENTRE, LIKE A SCHOOL OR A COMMUNITY HALL.

IF YOU HAVE TO EVACUATE:

• Leave immediately

• Take your emergency survival kit with you

• Listen to the radio and follow instructions from local emergency officials

• If you are instructed to do so, shut off water, gas and electricity

• Make arrangements for pets

• Wear clothes and shoes appropriate to conditions

• Lock the house

• Follow the routes specified by the officials. Don't take shortcuts. A shortcut could take you to a blocked or dangerous area.

• If you have time, leave a note telling others when you left and where you went. If you have a mailbox, you could leave the note there.

• If you are evacuated, sign up with the registration centre so you can be contacted or reunited with your family and loved ones.

• If you have to evacuate your home for a prolonged period during a winter power failure, drain the water from the plumbing system. Starting at the top of the house, open all taps and flush toilets several times, and open the drain valve in the basement. Drain your hot water tank by attaching a hose to the tank drain valve and running it to the basement floor drain. (If you drain a gas-fired water tank, the pilot light should be turned off - the local gas supplier should be called to re-light it!) Unhook washing-machine hoses and drain.