Acronyms
EDMA
What is the Emergency and Disaster Management Act?
Sustained action that reduces or eliminates long-term risk to people and property from natural hazards and their effects.
What is mitigation?
Its springtime and the runoff melt has begun, what is the industry term for the hazard at this time of year?
What is Freshet?
This Chief wears an orange vest.
Who is the Operations Chief?
Monitors costs, provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses, and handles regulatory compliance.
What is Finance?
PREOC
What is the Provincial Regional Emergency Operations Centre?
Is a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action.
What is preparedness?
Its dry, your mouth is parched and the water levels are really low - what hazard is this?
What is Drought?
The people in red
What this the management teamc? (Risk Management, Liaison Officer and Communications Officer)
Overall responsibility of the EOC falls to this person.
Who is the EOC Director?
WLRS - colloquially called ‘walrus’.
What is The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship?
The 5 phases of Emergency Management
What are Prevention, Preparedness, Mitigation, Response and Recovery?
Avalanche, Drought, Flood, Tornado, Wildfire, Winter Storm, Epidemic and Disease Outbreak.
What are Natural Disasters?
Logistics is represented by this colour.
What is yellow?
Upon entering the EOC you would sign in with this area.
What is logistics?