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 feature an emergency preparedness plan in position that incorporates your hairy members of the family.
Promise to organize through visiting ontariospca.ca/ep and you’ll be entered in a draw to win a puppy first help package, plus you’ll obtain our unfastened virtual Emergency Preparedness Workbook outlining the whole thing you wish to have to incorporate when assembling your puppy’s survival package.
The Ontario SPCA may be gifting away unfastened emergency decals this week for any person who has pets at house to let first responders know there are pets inside of. Within the match of an emergency like a hearth, it may possibly lend a hand the possibilities of firefighters with the ability to rescue your pets. Drop through your native Ontario SPCA animal centre this week to get yours.
“We’re asking everybody who has a hairy circle of relatives member to vow to organize,” says Jennifer Bluhm, Vice President, Neighborhood Outreach Products and services, Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. “By means of having an emergency plan and the essential emergency provides to safe haven in position, you’ll be in a greater place to lend a hand those you’re keen on, together with your pets.”
“The Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs (OAFC) could be very happy to sign up for forces with the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society in staring at, and elevating consciousness round Emergency Preparedness Week this Might,” says Deputy Leader Rob Grimwood, President, OAFC. “As a non-profit group dedicated to fireside and existence protection and the well-being of our neighborhood, we perceive the crucial want for readiness within the face of doable emergencies and failures, together with the ones that can have an effect on our hairy buddies. By means of operating at the side of the Ontario SPCA, we purpose to extend consciousness and recommend for preparedness methods that give protection to each human and animal lives throughout emergencies. This partnership is a testomony to our shared willpower to safeguarding lives, together with the ones of our liked pets, and highlights our proactive option to making sure, and safeguarding, our neighborhood’s well-being.”
For emergency preparedness assets, and to vow to organize, consult with ontariospca.ca/ep
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
Media members of the family
905-898-7122 x 375
Ontario Affiliation of Hearth Chiefs
Karthik Swaminathan
Communications Strategist
905-426-9865 x.1222
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been converting the lives of animals for over 150 years. The Society supplies care, convenience and compassion to animals in want in communities throughout Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to regard them with appreciate and kindness. The Society strives to stay pets and households in combination and accomplish that thru plenty of neighborhood reinforce products and services, corresponding to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat control methods, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane schooling, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter products and services.
The Ontario SPCA does now not obtain annual govt investment and depends upon donations to supply methods and products and services to lend a hand animals in want. To be told extra, or to donate, consult with ontariospca.ca. Charitable Trade # 88969-1044-RR0002.
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Provincial Place of job sits at the conventional territory of the Wendat, the Anishinabek Country, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississaugas of Scugog, Hiawatha and Alderville First International locations and the Métis Country. This territory was once the topic of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an settlement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied international locations to peaceably percentage and take care of the assets across the Nice Lakes. The treaties that have been signed for this actual parcel of land are jointly 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 Leader Hearth Officials 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.
Those Leader Hearth Officials are in the end accountable, through statute, for the control and supply of fireside, rescue, and emergency reaction to the 15 million citizens of Ontario. We’re the relied on consultant to govt relating to public and firefighter protection. The OAFC helps tasks designed to support the hearth and existence protection of our participants and all who live in Ontario.