Who Forgot to Invite the Reeve?
These eight Alberta communities aren’t municipalities, but the EMA still defines them as local authorities with responsibilities like declaring a SOLE.
What are Métis Settlements?
This must be submitted within 24 hours of a State of Local Emergency declaration and includes initial objectives and organizational structure.
What is ICS Form 201 (Incident Briefing)?
This Canadian agreement helps provinces and territories share personnel, equipment, and expertise when one jurisdiction is overwhelmed by a disaster.
What is the Emergency Management Mutual Aid Arrangement (EMMA)?
This type of community might show up on a highway sign, but it’s not a local authority under the EMA because it doesn’t have a governing council.
What is a hamlet?
All emergency management reports must be submitted to this email address to satisfy Alberta’s minimum reporting requirements.
What is pses.pecc@gov.ab.ca
If you receive an after hours mutual aid request from another province or territory, you should immediately contact this person.
Who is the on-call Duty Manager?
This is the total number of local authorities in Alberta, including cities, towns, villages, summer villages, specialized municipalities, municipal districts, improvement districts, and Métis settlements.
334
While it's a nice courtesy, sending your report here doesn’t satisfy the province’s minimum reporting requirements.
What is your AEMA Regional Field Officer?
EMMA kicks in when this happens to a province or territory during a crisis.
What is when a jurisdiction’s capacity is exceeded (or overwhelmed)?
Under Alberta's Emergency Management Act, this group is legally required to maintain an emergency management agency, appoint a director, and prepare a municipal emergency plan.
A local authority
To keep your emergency powers beyond Day 7, this document must be submitted before the clock runs out.
What is a SOLE renewal?
To stay ready for mutual aid requests, you should keep this list accurate and up to date.
What is the list of contact information for other provincial/territorial EMOs?
Unlike provinces with two-tier systems, Alberta keeps it simple—this term describes Alberta’s structure, where municipalities have no upper-tier government and are responsible for all local services.
What is a single-tier municipal system?
Until now, local authorities weren’t required to report this key public safety decision to AEMA. Thanks to amendments to the EMA, they are now expected to share these critical decisions with the Watchstation.
What are evacuation alerts and evacuation orders?
Despite being a national council of emergency management leaders, the Canadian Council of Emergency Management Organizations doesn’t include this level of government—making it a truly P/T-led initiative.
What is the federal government?