2025 Emergency Preparedness Week in Kawartha Lakes
Kawartha Lakes – Kawartha Lakes is observing Emergency Preparedness Week from May 4 to May 10, 2025.
Emergency Preparedness Week (EP Week) is a national awareness initiative and an opportunity for Canadians to take action to ensure you're prepared to protect yourself, your family and your community during an emergency.
This year, the theme is Be Prepared. Know Your Risks.
As we all know far too well with the recent ice storm, extended emergency events can come out of nowhere. The best thing you can do to prepare yourself and your family, is to know the risks around you and develop an emergency kit and plan accordingly.
Throughout EP Week, you're encouraged to take steps to enhance your ability to protect yourself and your family in the face of any potential emergency. By implementing straightforward measures, you can reinforce your preparedness for a variety of situations, regardless of when or where they may occur.
Key actions include:
Know the risks: Understanding the specific risks relevant to the Kawartha Lakes community is crucial for effective preparation. Whether it is extreme weather events or power outages, being aware of potential hazards enables better responsiveness. Additionally, readiness for less probable occurrences is equally important. For more information on emergency management in Kawartha Lakes visit Kawartha Lakes Emergency Management.
Make a plan: Creating and regularly practicing an emergency plan allows families to respond effectively when faced with an emergency. This includes making and practicing a home escape plan.
Prepare a 72-hour emergency kit: Be ready in the event of an emergency by preparing a 72-hour emergency kit with essential supplies to support you and your family (including pets) for at least three days during any kind of emergency that may occur.
To learn how to develop a plan and build an emergency preparedness kit visit the government of Canada’s Emergency Preparedness Week webpage.
Stay Connected: During an emergency, we do our best to communicate to residents in as many ways as possible. To receive Emergency Management updates as we send them out, be sure:
- Activate your Jump Inbox by subscribing to receive municipal news right to your email inbox. You can customize your feed and choose only the news you want to receive. For Emergency Management news we recommend subscribing to the News, and Weather and Emergency categories.
- We post all of our news and updates to Social Media. Follow us on X and Facebook to keep up all of the latest emergency event updates.
- During an emergency event, if you lose internet or cell phone data, tune in to local radio stations Bounce Radio 91.9 and/or Pure Country 105 for Kawartha Lakes news and updates.
About Emergency Preparedness Week (EP Week)
Emergency Preparedness Week serves as a nationwide awareness initiative. Starting in 1996, EPW is held annually during the first full week of May to help motivate Canadians to take practical steps towards fortifying their readiness to protect their families in case of emergencies.
Remember, emergency preparedness begins with individual action.
Staying Connected
Activate your Jump Inbox to be the first to know about municipal news and events. Connect with us on Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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Kawartha Lakes
P.O. Box 9000, 26 Francis Street
Lindsay, ON, K9V 5R8
Telephone: 705-324-9411
Toll free at 1-888-822-2225
After-hours emergencies: 1-877-885-7337
