Emergency Management Dept. Gay Ernst, Director 27 N.2nd Avenue Walla Walla, WA 99362

Phone  509.524.2900    Fax 509.524.2910 E-mail emd@co.walla-walla.wa.us Office Hours Monday - Friday 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM

OUR MISSION

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 emergency responders for major disaster events.  We facilitate forums with responders to exchange information and improve plans.  We are prepared to open an Emergency Operations 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.

SPEAKER

We can provide 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, we can conduct an emergency preparedness workshop in about an hour. The workshop includes a discussion of the hazards in our area, plans that responders currently have for each hazard, information on shelter-in-place, evacuation, warning and alert systems, and what we can do to prepare and mitigate each hazard.   Call 524-2900 or send an email.