OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
The Office of Emergency Management's mission is to ensure that local governments within El Paso County have the operational capability to survive a disaster, and to manage and conduct essential emergency functions. This capability of managing a survivable crisis includes the ability to direct, control, manage, and coordinate emergency operations within jurisdictions in cooperation with other local governments and liaison with the State and Federal government. To accomplish this, it maintains and develops a capability built on people (volunteers), communications equipment and plans.