The Monroe County Emergency Management Division provides planning, coordination and resources for effective mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery to all large-scale incidents that occur within Monroe County. These incidents could result from the following types of disasters:

We provide a number of services to the County and its 24 jurisdictions, including:

Maintain an Emergency Operations Center and an Emergency Communications Center that can be activated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to serve as a central location for coordinating the direction and control of an incident - click on the Emergency Operations Center tab at left to learn more
Maintain databases to procure needed resources in an emergency
Coordination of public education campaigns
Provide emergency notification and timely information to the public in an emergency
Coordinate the County's numerous public safety volunteer forces
Severe weather monitoring, tracking, and warning notification
Maintain a County-wide outdoor warning siren system comprised of 105 sirens to warn the public of emergency events