Provides the Disaster Preparedness Coalition, working through community partnerships to assist in improving regional emergency/disaster readiness.

Provides disaster preparedness information including printed guides and other materials. Topics covered include, but not limited to, floods and flood insurance, chemical leaks/spills, dam failure, earthquakes, hazardous materials, heat, hurricanes, nuclear power plan emergencies, terrorism, tornadoes, wildfire, winter storms, and general disasters. Offers flood maps and handles requests for map changes. Also provides information about the flood risk of a property. Also offers resources for teachers and parents.

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.

Offers several mobile phone apps that provides disaster preparedness information. Available apps include Emergency App, First Aid App, and Pet First Aid App.

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. Also provides Rescue and EMS services. Services are available 24/7.

Provides preparedness information, planning, and volunteer training for disasters such as tornados, floods, extreme heat, thunderstorm, winter storms, etc.

Provides printed materials for the public regarding various disasters and how to prepare for them. Offers information on being prepared for tornadoes, flooding, extreme heat, winter storms, and thunder storms. Offers information about hazardous materials.

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 free smoke alarms installed in homes and fire safety preparedness education.

Provides youth services classes with: Babysitter's Training, Disaster Preparedness such as the Pillowcase Project and Prepare with Pedro.

Provides coordination of an integrated emergency management system with local officials, emergency response organizations, support services, and volunteers. In the aftermath of disasters, the county EMA supports local response efforts and coordinates disaster recovery operations from the county Emergency Operations Center. Also coordinates and supports efforts to train and exercise with local officials, emergency responders, community service organizations, business and industry executives and citizens.

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. Also provides 24 hour emergency medical services. All firefighters are cross-trained as paramedics.

Assist local parishes in the development of local disaster preparedness plans, response and recovery after an event; respond to disasters through the Ohio VOAD network.

Provides environmental health services, sewage disposal, water supply program, food protection, rabies control and emergency preparedness.

COTS coordinates the Central Ohio Regional Healthcare Emergency Preparedness (RHEP) Coalition and the Southeast/Southeast Central Ohio Healthcare Coalition (SEOHC). The RHEP Coalition and the SEOHC are public-private partnerships that facilitate, support, and strengthen healthcare and related entities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Together, capabilities are built that can’t be achieved alone. COTS offers a Healthcare Incident Liaison (HIL) that leads a regional effort to build a disaster resilient healthcare system. The COTS HIL provides 24/7 situational awareness and resource coordination.

Notifes residents of Medina County of emergency situations via Medina County Emergency Alerts (MCEA). MCEA allows safety officials to send messages to the entire community, or a specific area within moments. These messages will inform residents of the situation and give instructions for action.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may occur where they live. CERT trains volunteers in basic disaster response skills, such as: fire safety, light search and rescue , team organization , and disaster medical operations.

Responsible for the control and extinction of fires in urban or wilderness areas; the inspection of buildings or 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.

Offers online topical guides to increase public awareness of the measures that people can take before, during, and after a major disaster or emergency. Topics include: - Chemical Emergency. - Covid-19. - Drought. - Earthquake. - Extreme Heat. - Fire. - Flood. - Flu. - Food Safety. - High Wind Safety. - Highway Safety. - Hurricane. - Landslide. - Nuclear Explosion. - Poisoning. - Power Outage. - Terrorism. - Thunderstorm. - Tornado. - Tsunami. - Volcano. - Water Safety. - Wildfire. - Winter Storm.

Offers disaster asistance.

Responsible for the control and extinguishment of fires, the inspection of buildings and hill side property, maintenance of equipment and trained fire-fighters. Also provides emergency medical and rescue services.

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.

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.