Fire Drills

Please view the following for the required procedures for the conducting of fire drills:

  1. Prior to conducting a fire drill, the person conducting the fire drill must contact Sudbury Fire at 705-675-3341 and inform the communicator of the impending fire drill. The fire drill must be conducted within 15 minutes of this advance call.
  2. Informing the building occupants and monitoring station (if applicable) of the fire drill will be at the discretion of the person conducting the fire drill.
  3. At the time of the advance call to the Sudbury Fire communicator, the caller must give their name and a phone number where they can be contacted. No fire drills may be conducted without the receipt of this information and the person conducting the fire drill must be able to be contacted for the duration of the exercise.
  4. The person conducting the fire drill will receive a call from the communicator should Sudbury Fire receive a call from the public or occupant, a monitoring station, and/or 9-1-1 to confirm that the calls Sudbury Fire are receiving are related to the fire drill.
  5. Should Sudbury Fire receive a call during the fire drill period and the communicator cannot reach the person conducting the drill, then the communicator will dispatch fire department units to the location.
  6. Upon the completion of the fire drill and fire alarm panel is reset and back in service, the person conducting the drill will contact Sudbury Fire and inform the communicator that the exercise is completed. At that time, the caller can receive information from the communicator regarding the calls received from building occupants/public, their monitoring station or 9-1-1.
  7. Enforcement under the Ontario Fire Code (Ont Reg 388/97) Section 2.8 may result should the person conducting the fire drill not follow this procedure.

Please include this procedure as part of your Fire Safety Plan.