Fire Response Sector Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: A Fire Response Sector is a geographical area for which fire response planning and attack services are delivered. In some locations response sector boundaries coincide with OMNR District boundaries, but elsewhere, many response sectors contain portions of more than one district and do not follow any other administrative OMNR boundaries. There are a total of 13 Fire Response Sectors in the province. The boundaries for these areas can be verified by the AFFMB, Forest Fire Management Section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-06-12

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  ae7a6716-716c-4a56-89c9-07f2556c837c

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  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.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 16

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  National Topographical Series (NTS): Used for coincident Man-Made, Natural or Projected base features such as Township, Road and Drainage boundaries. Digital Man-Made, Natural or Projected base features. 1:600,000 scale.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE), Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

• Related Links

  • Forest Fire Management Strategy for Ontario (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)