Emergency Management involves both public and private agencies throughout the State and County working to lessen the effects of disaster on the lives and property of the people of the State through leadership, coordination and support in the four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
An emergency can happen to any one of us at any time. It can be as simple as losing power or as devastating as the Ice Storm and everything in between such as fire, flood, sever storms, and medical emergencies. It is important that we all make sure that we can take care of ourselves in the first few hours or even days of the emergency until help can get to us. In the event of a medical emergency or fire help is minutes away. In the case of an ice storm, blizzard or terrorist event emergency services will be stretched thin and we will need to take care of ourselves until help arrives. We need to make sure we have medication, water, batteries, phone number lists, radio, meeting locations, and much more ready before something happens.
