IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stouffville, ON (Might 6, 2024) – This week is Emergency Preparedness Week and the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society and the Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs (OAFC) are asking you to vow to organize and have an emergency preparedness plan in place that features your furry members of the family.
Promise to organize by visiting ontariospca.ca/ep and you’ll be entered in a draw to win a pet first assist equipment, plus you’ll obtain our free digital Emergency Preparedness Workbook outlining all the pieces you could embody when assembling your pet’s survival equipment.
The Ontario SPCA can be giving freely free emergency decals this week for anybody who has pets at house to let first responders know there are pets inside. Within the occasion of an emergency like a hearth, it could actually assist the probabilities of firefighters having the ability to rescue your pets. Drop by your native Ontario SPCA animal centre this week to get yours.
“We’re asking everybody who has a furry member of the family to vow to organize,” says Jennifer Bluhm, Vice President, Group Outreach Providers, Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. “By having an emergency plan and the mandatory emergency provides to shelter in place, you’ll be in a greater place to assist those you’re keen on, together with your pets.”
“The Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs (OAFC) could be very happy to hitch forces with the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society in observing, and elevating consciousness round Emergency Preparedness Week this Might,” says Deputy Chief Rob Grimwood, President, OAFC. “As a non-profit group dedicated to fireplace and life security and the well-being of our group, we perceive the vital want for readiness within the face of potential emergencies and disasters, together with those who could affect our furry mates. By working along with the Ontario SPCA, we goal to extend consciousness and advocate for preparedness methods that shield each human and animal lives throughout emergencies. This partnership is a testomony to our shared dedication to safeguarding lives, together with these of our beloved pets, and highlights our proactive method to making sure, and safeguarding, our group’s well-being.”
For emergency preparedness sources, and to vow to organize, go to ontariospca.ca/ep
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
Media relations
905-898-7122 x 375
Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs
Karthik Swaminathan
Communications Strategist
905-426-9865 x.1222
karthik.swaminathan@oafc.on.ca
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been altering the lives of animals for over 150 years. The Society offers care, consolation and compassion to animals in want in communities throughout Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to deal with them with respect and kindness. The Society strives to maintain pets and households collectively and achieve this by quite a lot of group assist providers, akin to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat administration applications, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane training, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter providers.
The Ontario SPCA doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding and depends on donations to offer applications and providers to assist animals in want. To be taught extra, or to donate, go to ontariospca.ca. Charitable Enterprise # 88969-1044-RR0002.
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Provincial Workplace sits on the normal territory of the Wendat, the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississaugas of Scugog, Hiawatha and Alderville First Nations and the Métis Nation. This territory was the topic of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an settlement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and take care of the sources across the Nice Lakes. The treaties that have been signed for this specific parcel of land are collectively known as the Williams Treaties of 1923.
Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs
The Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs (OAFC) is a non-partisan, non-profit affiliation that represents the Chief Hearth Officers of the 437 hearth departments within the Province of Ontario. The 437 hearth departments are divided into 32 profession hearth departments, 43 composite hearth departments and 362 volunteer hearth departments. There are roughly 30,716 firefighters in Ontario, together with about 18,281 volunteer firefighters, 11,971 profession firefighters and 464 part-time firefighters.
These Chief Hearth Officers are in the end accountable, by statute, for the administration and supply of fireside, rescue, and emergency response to the 15 million residents of Ontario. We’re the trusted advisor to authorities in the case of public and firefighter security. The OAFC helps initiatives designed to enhance the fireplace and life security of our members and all who reside in Ontario.
