Coordinate and facilitate resources to minimize the impacts of disasters and emergencies on people, property, the environment and the economy of Walla Walla County.  Through education, training, information and community awareness, we will prepare for; respond to; recover from; and mitigate the effects of disaster for all who live, work or visit here.

What We Do

Walla Walla County Emergency Management is organized by agreement between Walla Walla County and the cities of Walla Walla, College Place, Waitsburg, and Prescott.

We provide mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery planning for major disaster events and facilitate forums with emergency responders to exchange information and improve plans. We are prepared to open an Emergency Coordination Center to provide support to field incident commanders and information to the public when a disaster occurs.

We provide public information on the hazards in Walla Walla County; how we can mitigate or reduce their effects and ways of preparing ourselves.

We can assist you in getting a speaker at your school, business, civic group, church or other gathering to provide information on emergency preparedness, local hazards or hazard mitigation.

If you want to improve your emergency preparedness at your school, business, church or organization, an emergency preparedness workshop can be conducted in about an hour. The workshop includes a discussion of the hazards in our area and what we can do to prepare for and mitigate each hazard.