Grants and Contributions:
This Project will contribute to enhance the resilience of First Nation communities and reserves, by increasing their awareness to fire hazard exposure and improving their understanding of the risks of wildfire impacts on communities. This Project promotes the use of an online tool for disseminating information to the public and stakeholders in an understandable and freely accessible format.
Grant or contribution awarded and spanning more than one fiscal year.
The purpose is to increase the resiliency of Canadian communities to the risks and impacts of natural disasters, and to undertake and implement risk reduction analyses and actions. To ensure that wildfire response agencies are integrated with each other in order to implement an effective wildland fire response program, and, to increase the wildfire knowledge of agencies, communities and individuals, in order to create a culture of wildfire safety and to empower the public to understand risk.