Provides a program that increases public awareness of the measures that people can take before, during and after major disaster or wide-scale emergency

Rsponsible for the control and extinction of fires in urban or wilderness areas; the inspection of buildings and hillside property to ensure potential fire hazards; and the maintenance of equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur. Also provides 24 hour emergency medical services. All firefighters are cross-trained as paramedics.

Knox County EMA hosts free Community Emergency Response Team training classes. The training promotes a partnering effort between emergency services and the people that they serve. The goal is to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations, or workplaces in basic response skills. CERT members are then integrated into the emergency response capability for their area. If a disastrous event overwhelms or delays the community’s professional response, CERT members can assist others by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned during training. These skills can help save and sustain lives following a disaster until help arrives.

Tries to anticipate what emergencies could be faced in Fairfield County and then develop plans to be able to respond to any threats to health and safety. Also provides resources and information to help individuals and families prepare for emergencies.

Coordination of emergency services.

The Mercer County Emergency Management Agency leads and supports the county in providing disaster preparedness information.

National, standardized programs taught by certified presenters, designed to help participants understand, prepare for, and respond appropriately to emergencies. Programs include: * Prepare with Pedro * The Pillowcase Project * Be Red Cross Ready * Ready Rating

Provides fire and emergency medical services to a highly integrated suburban area. Service area doubles in population size each work day, wide range of other services also provided; fire inspection investigation, rescue, and hazardous material mitigation.

Provides printed and online materials for the public regarding various disasters and how to prepare for them. Offers information on being prepared for all types of possible emergencies including flood, tornado, winter storms, drought, earthquake, hazardous materials releases, transportation crashes, civil disorder, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and radiological emergencies.

Conducts multi-hazard planning for the communities that will enable them to mitigate, prepare for, respond to or recover from natural disasters, public health crises, terrorist incidents or other emergencies that occur within or have an impact on their area. Also addresses citizen awareness and self-sufficiency, responder capabilities, interagency cooperation in emergency operations and the roles, responsibilities and activities of public and private organizations and their staffs in all phases of the disaster.

Responds to incidents involving fire or hazardous materials and provides emergency medical services and rescues when appropriate. Also provides public education and fire inspections to increase community awareness of fire safety and accident prevention.

Responsible for the control and extinction of fires in urban and wilderness areas; the inspection of buildings and hillside property to ensure potential fire hazards; and the maintenance of equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur. Also, provides emergency medical services and ALS transportation to local hospitals.

Responsible for the control and extinction of fires in urban or wilderness areas; the inspection of buildings and hillside property to ensure potential fire hazards; and the maintenance of equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur.

Hyper-Reach is a free emergency alert service. In the event of an emergency or severe weather in Morgan County, an alert will be sent to you by voice, text, and/or email provided by you.

Provides volunteer opportunities for emergency and disaster response.

Coshocton County has an Emergency Telephone Calling System named “CODE RED”. This calling system has the capability to call every phone number registered in our database within a short period of time, or targeted areas as needed in the event of an emergency. The calling system is used for Emergency Communication to county residents and can be triggered by personnel from several emergency response agencies within the county. The phone numbers called are the ones recorded in a database of Coshocton County telephones.

The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a national network of volunteers, organized locally to improve the health and safety of their communities. MRC volunteers include medical and public health professionals, as well as other community members without healthcare backgrounds. MRC units engage these volunteers to strengthen public health, improve emergency response capabilities and build community resiliency. They prepare for and respond to natural disasters, such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, and floods, as well as other emergencies affecting public health, such as disease outbreaks.

Conducts multi-hazard planning for the communities that will enable them to mitigate, prepare for, respond to or recover from natural disasters, public health crises, terrorist incidents or other emergencies that occur within or have an impact on their area. Also addresses citizen awareness and self-sufficiency, responder capabilities, interagency cooperation in emergency operations and the roles, responsibilities and activities of public and private organizations and their staffs in all phases of the disaster.

Offers printed information and will answer general questions about how to handle disasters and emergency situations such as tornadoes, extreme heat, thunderstorms, winter storms, hazardous materials, and floods.

Provides snow emergency information regarding the City of Barberton and allows people to sign up for emergency text notifications.

Administers a county-wide emergency management program to coordinate governmental and non-governmental response to disasters, assist in the development of emergency preparedness plans, and provide training to local emergency personnel.

Provides emergency management services and assists agencies with disaster resources.

Wyandot County Emergency Alerts is a tool that provides a platform for direct communications between municipalities/law enforcement/educational institutions and citizens. The Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office can send information on multiple platforms (text message, e-mail, web), filling a critical emergency notification need. Messages can be transmitted anywhere in a radius from .25-miles to 20 miles, allowing neighborhood-level, time-sensitive information to be sent only to affected citizens.

The committee is made up of approximately 25 people from different organizations within the community. It plans and prepares for chemical emergencies in the local area. It also maintains and processes requests about chemicals stored in the county as it applies to the community right-to-know laws.

Provides a program that increase public awareness of the measures that people can take before, during and after a major disaster or wide-scale emergency.