What Is Emergency Management

Emergency management protects communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters. 

 Emergency management seeks to promote safer, less vulnerable communities with the capacity to cope with hazards and disasters. 

To be a mission-driven agency that is comprehensive, progressive, risk-driven, integrated, collaborative, coordinated, flexible, and professional.