Emergency Management Salt Spring Island

06/17/2026

If someone in your circle could use practical tools and support around climate anxiety, please pass this along.

FREE PUBLIC WEBINAR FROM THE BCACC! Climate change is shaping more than the environment. It’s shaping how we feel, cope, and move through the world. Climate anxiety can feel heavy, isolating, and hard to name.

Join us, alongside Matt Treble, RCC of CMHA BC, for a free webinar that explores where those feelings come from and offers practical tools to help us understand and respond to them. Please share widely so that this information reaches those who need it the most.

EVENT DETAILS:

June 23 | 6 PM - 7 PM

REGISTER HERE - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FkyKnir6SPSrWGRFNXJ3IA #/registration

06/15/2026

Salt Spring Island Fire-Rescue, Emergency Management Salt Spring Island, and Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue will be conducting a joint wildfire evacuation exercise this Tuesday, June 16, 2026 in the Brinkworthy area. Exercise Tinderbox will run from 7:15 PM to 9:00 PM.

Residents may see emergency vehicles with lights active, personnel conducting door-to-door notifications on foot, and community members walking to the Brinkworthy Place Community Building as part of the exercise. This is a training exercise only. There is no emergency. The exercise is a closed participant event and public involvement is not required. We ask that non-participants avoid the Brinkworthy and Norton Road area during the exercise window.

Thank you for your patience and support as we train to keep our community safer.

06/11/2026

Emergencies like wildfires can happen when you least expect them.

If you’re under an evacuation order, leave right away, following all instructions from local officials.

Next, contact your insurance provider, as most home and tenant policies cover evacuation-related living expenses ✔️

If you don’t have insurance, or need help meeting basic needs, create an Emergency Support Services profile. ✔️

TIP: Doing this ahead of time will make it easier to access support.

Here’s how to create one:

Step 1: Visit ess.gov.bc.ca

Step 2: Click Create Profile

Step 3: Follow the BC Services Card login and registration instructions

Alt text: A person holding a smartphone with Emergency Support Services website.

05/27/2026

Please consider consider taking part in the Salt Spring Island Community Health Needs Assessment for the Salt Spring Health Advancement Network.

Salt Spring Island Public Library is sharing this important survey from Salt Spring Health Advancement Network.

Is health important to you? Do you live on Salt Spring Island?
We need your voice!!
The last community health needs assessment for Salt Spring Island was completed in 2019. Since then, things have changed a lot. Salt Spring Island is a unique community with unique needs. Strong healthy public policy must be based on accurate and current data, so help us get that data!

Please use the QR code on the image or follow the link in the comments.

To honour your time you can opt in at the end of the survey to a draw for a local gift card of your choice. There will be five offered, in the amounts of $300 (2), $200 (2), and $100 (1).

All data that we collect will be reported back to the community in the fall of 2026. To do this work the Salt Spring Health Advancement Network is supported by the CRD and PlanH, BC Healthy Communities fund.

05/20/2026

Please join us at the Ask Salt Spring session this Friday May 22 at the Salt Spring Island Multi Space (SIMS) (former Middle School) classroom next to the Boardroom, 11:00am-1:00pm.

This session is a great opportunity to ask us anything and have respectful conversations about how we can be prepared for the hazards we face.

Hope to see you there!

05/14/2026

Mandatory water restrictions are currently in place for Electoral Areas, including Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands.
Small drinking water systems are especially vulnerable during dry conditions. Many local sources remain at low levels. Each system has specific water use restrictions in place.
Stay up to date on current water conservation levels for CRD drinking water systems:
https://www.crd.ca/news/alerts/electoral-area-water-restrictions
Thank you for doing your part to conserve water!

05/11/2026

For your reference: no reported tsunami threat to British Columbia. 

05/10/2026

, on Salt Spring Island, emergency preparedness starts at the community level?

Preparedness & Organizing for Disasters, Pods, are small groups of neighbours that connect before emergencies happen, so they’re ready to support each another when one occurs🪴

Pod program members share contact lists, identify emergency meeting places and check in on neighbours who may need extra support ✔️

When roads are blocked, power is out, or help is delayed, community members make sure no one is left on their own 💙

This is “In it together” in action 👈

Read more: https://ow.ly/jzQa50YRQ7p



Alt text: A busy outdoor community market with vendor tents and people walking in Salt Spring Island.

05/09/2026

The Emergency Fair is today at the Ganges Firehall until 2pm!

Come on down to learn about how best to prepare for emergencies and meet your local first responders! Free, family friendly event.

05/09/2026

Research shows communities with strong social connections before an emergency experience reduced impacts and shorter recovery times.

Tomorrow at the Emergency Preparedness Fair, you can learn which Neighbourhood Pod you belong to you can contribute to your neighbourhood's preparation for an emergency.

Come on down to the Ganges Firehall tomorrow, May 9th, from 10am-2pm to meet your local responders and upgrade your preparedness knowledge. This year's theme is IN IT TOGETHER. As an island community, we all have a role to play in preparing for the unexpected and supporting our neighbours.