Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario,
Canada
Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment
Keywords:
Fire, Forest Fires, FIRE DANGER, FIRE MANAGEMENT
FIRE PREVENTION
Fire, Incendie, Forest fires, Incendie de forêt
Place Keywords:
Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario
Purpose:
Defines Administrative Boundaries for fire response planning and attack purposes.
Dataset Language:
eng; CAN
Status: completed
Update Frequency: asNeeded
Spatial Representation Type: vector
Extent
West Longitude: -95.153740
East Longitude: -74.320106
North Latitude: 56.859364
South Latitude: 41.676556
Supplemental Information:
Additional Time Period Information: On April 6, 2005 the sector W08 was removed from this layer since it has been deemed to be no longer necessary due to the new fire management strategies. Response Sector W04 has been subdivided into two. The division was created because it made sense for Thunder Bay to respond to fire calls due to their proximity, but because the area is within Nipigon District, Nipigon will provide the administration for any fires. The area is also known as the Black Bay Protocol. In 2005 as a result of transformation within the AFFM business area the boundary that splits Sector 1 and 2 which crossed just south of the French River around the Britt area and encompassed most of the Parry Sound District now follows an OBM grid line to shore passing above Parry Island First Nation and then connects to the road layer following HWY 124 to Sundridge. On November 28, 2007 this layer was updated with some spatial refinements along the boundaries of some response sectors which followed railways in the East Fire Region. On March 23, 2009 the line dividing Response Sector W04 was removed at the request of the West Fire Region since it was causing confusion amongst field staff On July 9, 2010 the Fire Response Sector data class was converted to a simple data class which involved the removal of the GEOG_UNIT table. Also, the Fire Response Sector data that resides in the RESOURCE_MANAGEMENT_AREA shared table was moved to a new table called FIRE_RESPONSE_SECTOR. The Fire Response Sector data located in RESOURCE_MANAGEMENT_AREA.OFFICIAL_NAME was moved to FIRE_RESPONSE_SECTOR.RESPONSE_SECTOR and a new attribute called BASE_RESPONSIBLE was added to the FIRE_RESPONSE_SECTOR table. In each response sector there is a sector response officer who is responsible for coordinating fire fighting resources within their respective sectors. The SRO's physical locations are listed in the Base Responsible field. On March 8, 2012 Response Sectors E03, E04, E05, and E06 were changed to align with MNR District Administrative boundaries. Part of Sector E02's southern boundary formererly along highway 124 has been moved down to align with the Fire Management Headquarters Areas.