This is done through our Branson 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center and City’s Emergency Operations Center. Communications and Coordination Center: Established centers available to receive NWS Information and provide local reports from the community.To obtain this certification the Fire Department’s Emergency Management Division: Storm Ready provides emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations. The program encourages communities to take a proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations. Storm Ready is a nationwide program that helps communities better protect their citizens during severe weather such as thunderstorms, tornados, flash flooding, and winter weather. The City of Branson has been designated a Storm Ready Community by the National Weather Service (NWS). Navigate through the Emergency Management Page to learn more about how these four categories fit into our Storm Ready Community designation, Outdoor Warning Sirens, Shelters, Community Emergency Response Team, and more! Storm Ready Community The City of Branson is a Storm Ready Community: Be Informed * Know Where to Go! Coordinated through the EOC, appropriate resources are secured to assist with damage assessment and assets to assist with life “getting back to normal.” Recoveryįollowing a disaster recovery becomes a priority for our City including its residents and business industry. This includes the use of the Incident Command System (ICS) by these agencies often times coordinated through an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) staffed by key leaders of the City government and the community. This section focuses on the coordination of all response agencies to a disaster. This section also encourages the Public to take action to be prepared in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. The Emergency Management Division maintains a Local Emergency Operations Plan that lays a framework that will allow the City to save lives, minimize injuries, protect property and the environment, preserve functioning civil government, and maintain economic activities essential to the survival and recovery from natural and man-made disasters. An example might be guiding residents on ways to avoid future damage to their homes and property from flooding. This section focuses on identifying strategies to reduce or eliminate the effects of future disasters. The Emergency Management Division of the Fire Department focuses on four key phases of Emergency Management including: Mitigation
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