Agenda No.
CITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM
| City Council Meeting: | August 19, 2025 |
| Department: | Fire Department |
| Subject: | National Emergency Management Awareness Month - August 2025 (Councilmember Westbrook) |
BACKGROUND
What is National Emergency Management Awareness Month?
During August, emergency managers will conduct a coordinated, inudstry-wide awareness and advocacy campaign to promote the capabilities of emergency management and the role of emergency managers.
What Is Our Story?
Emergency Managers are problem solvers - the ones you call 24/7/365 when an incident requires coordination across multiple services, agencies, or disciplines, even beyond traditional public safety. We help communities and corporations understand their risk, build resilience, navigate crises, and know what to do when disaster strikes.
We are Emergency Managers.
We are your neighbors. We serve rural communities and large cities. We advise corporations, nonprofits, and goverment agencies. We work in schools, hospitals, universities, and bussinesses. We are chief risk advisors for the communities, businesses, and organizations we serve - helping them prevent, mitigate, prepare for, and recover from disasters. We always know who to call, we anticipate the needs, and we are never suprized by the phrase "This is unprecedented."
We are ready.
We are disaster professionals, bridging gaps between agencies, bussinesses, and communities to build resilience. We connect resources, foster collaboration, and ensure that when crises happen, response efforts are seamless and effective. We are more than lights and sirens. We are the professional every community needs, just as much as fire, police, and EMS.
What is Emergency Management?
Emergency management ensures communities and organizations are prepared to respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters by creating, coordinating, and managing systems that save lives, minimize damage to property and infrastructure, mitigate future risks, and restore communities and organizations post-disaster.
Emergency management is a critical function that identifies, assesses, and mitigates risk to ensure the resilience of communities and organizations. It leads crisis preparedness, response coordination, and recovery efforts by working across disciplines, sectors, and jurisdictions.
During August, emergency managers will conduct a coordinated, inudstry-wide awareness and advocacy campaign to promote the capabilities of emergency management and the role of emergency managers.
What Is Our Story?
Emergency Managers are problem solvers - the ones you call 24/7/365 when an incident requires coordination across multiple services, agencies, or disciplines, even beyond traditional public safety. We help communities and corporations understand their risk, build resilience, navigate crises, and know what to do when disaster strikes.
We are Emergency Managers.
We are your neighbors. We serve rural communities and large cities. We advise corporations, nonprofits, and goverment agencies. We work in schools, hospitals, universities, and bussinesses. We are chief risk advisors for the communities, businesses, and organizations we serve - helping them prevent, mitigate, prepare for, and recover from disasters. We always know who to call, we anticipate the needs, and we are never suprized by the phrase "This is unprecedented."
We are ready.
We are disaster professionals, bridging gaps between agencies, bussinesses, and communities to build resilience. We connect resources, foster collaboration, and ensure that when crises happen, response efforts are seamless and effective. We are more than lights and sirens. We are the professional every community needs, just as much as fire, police, and EMS.
What is Emergency Management?
Emergency management ensures communities and organizations are prepared to respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters by creating, coordinating, and managing systems that save lives, minimize damage to property and infrastructure, mitigate future risks, and restore communities and organizations post-disaster.
Emergency management is a critical function that identifies, assesses, and mitigates risk to ensure the resilience of communities and organizations. It leads crisis preparedness, response coordination, and recovery efforts by working across disciplines, sectors, and jurisdictions.