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Offers instructional courses in critical lifesaving and disaster preparedness skills to individuals, businesses and communities.

Provides a 24-hour informational hotline featuring recorded messages which address the community's concerns about local or national disasters. Options are given on how to obtain information on how households and businesses can protect themselves against known disaster issues and on how to get specific questions answered by appropriate agency personnel.

Offers information about the Community Emerency Response Team (CERT) to members of the community who wish to volunteer in times of disaster. Trains CERT team members in how to be prepared for a disaster and disaster response including search and rescue, general disaster preparedness, basic disaster medical operations, and team operations.

Coordinates planning, response, recovery, and mitigation related to any disaster occurring in Allen County. Maintains the county's haz-mat and decontamination team as well as the county's Emergency Operation Center (EOC), urban search and rescue team, and regional bomb squad. Establishes and updates the county's Emergency Operations Plan and coordinates training exercises for various response agencies.

Provides emergency management services for areas where a disaster declaration has been issued. Services provided depend on the situation. Coordinates training and drill exercises for various response agencies.

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.

Coordination between environmental health division and local and state agencies in the planning and response to emergencies.

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.

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.

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.

Provides free radon kits and potassium iodine pills. Ensures protection of the community from unnecessary radiation exposure.

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.

Provides paramedic training and ensures that the medical supplies and equipment that paramedics use is refurbished regularly in order to ensure the safety of the community.

Coordinates and trains local teams who wish to help in response to local disasters. Type of activities will vary depending on the situation. In some cases, individuals may be referred to existing organizations or teams who have been mobilized to deal with a variety of emergencies or disasters.

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.

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

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

Develop plans to address public health emergencies (such as a biological attack or a flu pandemic). Provides for interaction of Public Health with other public safety organizations to ensure a cooperative response to emergencies that threaten the safety of health of residents.

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. The maintenance of equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur.

Emergency planning, responding to emergencies on the state level, as well as preparing and conducting training exercises for the entire state.

Purpose is to secure the nation from a variety of threats. To report a concern, call 911. Detailed instructions on a variety of concerns are listed on www.dhs.gov/report-incidents.

CERT is a group that is organized and receives special training that enhances their ability to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against a major emergency or disaster situation. CERT educates the community about disaster preparedness and offers an 8 week training course, coordinated through the Washington County Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), that focuses on disaster preparedness, fire suppression, medical operations, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and team organization.

Offers various community crime prevention and safety programs: security evaluations, vacation security checks, fire inspections and crime prevention programs for citizens.

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.