Emergency Management

The Wheatland Regional Emergency Management Partnership includes Wheatland County, the Town of Strathmore, the City of Chestermere, and the Villages of Hussar, Rockyford and Standard. This partnership was created for emergency planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. This partnership aims to strengthen knowledge of regional hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities, strengthen coordinated and integrated regional emergency management planning and effectiveness, and reach of the overall partnership.

By working together, all parties will benefit by growing overall capacity, expanding resources, improving collaboration, enhancing emergency preparedness, and increasing efficiency.

We are excited to share and grow our knowledge together and giving us a chance to bridge the gap in expertise, a reduction in costs, more opportunities to train together, and the ability to share a new perspective.

Any local government interested in becoming a member of the Wheatland Regional Emergency Management Partnership shall have the opportunity ti request membership. Please get in touch with the WREMP Coordinator for more information on how to join the partnership.

Emergency management is the ongoing process of planning and allocating resources to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. A disaster is an emergency that exceeds the communities’ resources.

 There are four phases of emergency management

1. Prevention – actions taken to prevent or mitigate the impact of disasters (reduce risk).
2. Preparedness – measures taken by individuals and communities to prepare for the occurrence of a hazard event.
3. Response – timely and effective actions taken during an event such as emergency response and using the Emergency Command Centre if necessary.
4. Recovery – the process of returning to a “normal” state after a disaster has occurred. This would include rebuilding a community.

View the City’s Emergency Management Bylaw.

If you have any questions about CHEMA, please call the City at (403) 207-7050.

A local emergency can have an impact on your commute, your work or your child’s day at school. Now there’s a way for Chestermere residents to receive location-specific and time-sensitive information during emergencies with a brand new app.

The app is free to download from any smart phone app store and all that is needed to register is a Chestermere postal code. It will allow the City to alert subscribers to emergencies such as fires, storms, or highway closures and provide safety instructions specific to the event and the user’s location.

Chestermere residents can also set location pins in the app under the ‘My Locations’ tab for their work, home, their child’s school or any other location they choose within the City’s boundaries.

The app has the ability to notify all subscribers within the City if there is a large emergency, but also can customize notifications based on the distance a user might be from the incident. This will help us provide specific instructions to residents, such as how and where to evacuate if they are close to the incident, or provide directions to shelter-in-place if they are located just outside an incident area.

Residents who do not have a smart phone can also easily subscribe using their mobile phone, land line or email through the service’s web portal at register.voyent-alert.com. 

In the event of an extended emergency, you may be asked to stay in your home with your family for up to 72 hours.

Build an emergency kit – includes printable brochures and checklists for family, pet, farm animal and vehicle preparedness

Ensure that you are prepared by having a 72-hour kit ready with the following:

• What to do before, during and after an emergency
• Wildfires
• Tornadoes and extreme winds
• Floods
• Power and water outages
• Thunderstorms, lightning, heavy rain and hail
• Blizzards, freezing rain, ice storms and extreme cold
• General Hazard Preparedness