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Scouts Canada and Emergency Management Ontario (EMO) 
host special day of activities for all Scouting members and their families

Emergency Preparedness Day 2007
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Scouts and their families visited the Toronto Fire Academy/EMS Training Centre on May 12th for Scouts Emergency Prepardness Day.  They seen the Toronto Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service in action, learned what is needed to build a 72 hour Emergency Kit and participated in a MedVent First Aid challange, plus many more activities and displays. Activities and displays provided by: Emergency Management Ontario Toronto Emergency Medical Service Toronto Fire Service Toronto Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Canadian Red Cross EMS Medvents Amateur Radio Emergency Service

As part of Scouts Canada Centennial Celebration, this busy fun filled event provided all participants with an increased awareness to emergency preparedness through hands on activities and information. Members of Dufferin County ARES, Toronto ARES and had oportunity to speak with scouts and their families about the role Amateur Radio Emergency Service plays in public safety. The Dufferin County ARES Group displayed their Emergency Communications Mobile that is equipped with HF/VHF/UHF transeivers and digital communications. The Toronto ARES Group had an indoor display of the different types of communications equipment that is used by amateur radio operators and passed out information brochures on public safety and emergency preparedness published by Emergency Management Ontario.

Toronto EMS, in partnership with Scouts Canada, operates a vocational Venturer Company and Rover Crew for male and female youth ages 14 to 25. Since Scouting is synonymous with public service, the youth are encouraged and supported to consider a career in paramedicine or other related fields and are invited to participate in many Scouting and EMS/City public service events such as clothing and food drives, displays and parades and festivities. Physical fitness is actively promoted and outdoor activities (skiing, canoeing, camping etc.) are planned throughout the Scout year. 

For more information about the MedVents program visit: www.toronto.ca/ems/special_programs/medvent.htm

HUSAR, as defined by Emergency Preparedness Canada, as: "The location of trapped persons in collapsed structures using dogs and sophisticated search equipment; the use of heavy equipment such as cranes to remove debris; the work to breach, shore, remove and lift structural components; the treatment and removal of victims; and the securing of partially or completely collapsed structures."

For more information about Toronto HUSAR visit: www.toronto.ca/ems/operations/husar.htm

ARES is composed of licensed radio amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service, when disaster strikes. Ontario A.R.E.S. operates a series of networks utilizing a wide range of telecommunications equipment and technology and through objective planning of these resources deliver an auxiliary communications system in the interest of Public Safety and Service. 

For more information about the ARES program in Ontario visit: www.emoares.org
and the Radio Amateurs of Canada webiste at: www.rac.ca/fieldorg/racares.htm

Dufferin County ARES
Emergency Communications Vehicle
www.va3gy.ca/ares

left to right Timothy Mclean (VA3TMX), Bob Berry (VA3WXW),  Paul Chantree (VE3PWZ), Scott Price (VE3SCP)  and Doug Taylor (VE3DTX).
Paul Chantree VE3PWZ Dufferin County Emergency Coordinator

The Dufferin County ARES Group displayed their Emergency Communications Mobile that is equipped with HF/VHF/UHF transeivers and digital communications.

In attendance from the Dufferin County Group; Timothy Mclean (VA3TMX), Bob Berry (VA3WXW), Paul Chantree (VE3PWZ), Scott Price (VE3SCP) and Doug Taylor (VE3DTX)

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Toronto ARES
http://ares.meskes.ca

Joe Cusimano VE3OV GTA District Emergency Coordinator	Jim Taylor VA3KU EMO Provincial Emergency Operations Centre Amateur Radio Program Coordinator

The Toronto ARES Group had an indoor display of the different types communications equipment that is used by amateur radio operators and passed out information brochures on public safety and emergency preparedness published by Emergency Management Ontario. 

In attendance from the Toronto Group; Joe Cusimano (VE3OV), Jim Taylor (VA3KU), Ward Kennedy (VE3WGK), Ted Cowie (VE3AAP) and Jay Ritchie (VE3EMP)

Photos courtesy of Ted Cowie VE3AAP EMO ARES Assistant Coordinator