Fire Rescue Services and Emergency Management

Demonstrations

• Community Wildfire Protection Plan

  The Community Wildfire Protection Plan was developed in 2014 as a planning tool to help the City of Vernon respond to the risks associated with wildfires.

  The objectives of the Community Wildfire Protection Plan are: 

  • identify forestland wildfire threats that could impact development within the City of Vernon,
  • map all possible eligible treatment areas within the city that that would assist in reducing the wildfire threat,
  • identify treatment recommendations that would reduce the overall wildfire threats to the City of Vernon,
  • provide recommendations to City of Vernon officials regarding OCP, zoning, and building bylaws as well as wildfire related city covenants.

  Community Wildfire Protection Plan

• The Era of Megafires

  Forest ecologist Paul Hessburg confronts some tough truths about wildfires and details how we can help restore the natural balance of the landscape.

  For more information and updates, visit the Era of Megafires website:

  https://www.eraofmegafires.com/
• Public Fire and Life Safety Education

  • Building Owner's Responsibilities for Fire Safety Equipment
  • Carbon Monoxide Safety - Often called the invisible killer, carbon monoxide is an invisible, odorless, colorless gas created when fuels (such as gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil, and methane) burn incompletely. In the home, heating and cooking equipment that burn fuel can be sources of carbon monoxide.

    • https://www.nfpa.org/

  • Fire Safety for Kids
    • www.sparky.org/
    • www.firefacts.org/
    • www.safekids.org/fire
  • Fire Prevention Officers Association of B.C.
    • www.fpoa.bc.ca/
  • BC Office of the Fire Commissioner
    • http://www2.gov.bc.ca/
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
    • www.nfpa.org/safety-information
  • Canadian Safety Council
    • canadasafetycouncil.org
    • canadasafetycouncil.org/campaigns/fire_safety         
  • BC Wildfire Prevention
    • bcwildfire.ca/prevention/
  • BC Wildfire Provincial fire bans
    • bcwildfire.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Bans.asp
  • Fire Watch Procedures
  • Danger! Gasoline
  • Natural Gas Safety
  • Propane Barbecue Safety Tips
  • www.knowfire.ca
• Codes and Standards

  • BC Fire Code
    • bccodes.ca/fire-code.aspx
  • BC Building Code
    • www.bccodes.ca
    • housing.gov.bc.ca/building/code_questions/index.htm
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
    • www.nfpa.org/freeaccess