DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Definition:
The DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agencies represent the police, fire, rescue, and other emergency services provided by the District of Columbia including the DC Emergency Management Agency (DC EMA).
Inventory Elements:
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Emergency Management
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
- Recieve landline public safety calls and forward to appropriate dispatch center
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Receive mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
- Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
- Maintain centralized emergency management system
- Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
- Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
- Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency/incident response involving multiple agencies in District of Columbia
Incident Management