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CITY OF SAGINAW
DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION

2024-2025

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

The Lake Worth-Saginaw Office of Emergency Management is a 50/50 partnership between the
municipalities of Saginaw and Lake Worth for the duties of Emergency Management. Emergency
Management responsibility is assigned to the fire department in both municipalities. Emergency Management
activities and tasks are primarily performed by an Emergency Management Coordinator who is under the
direction of the Fire Chief.
Emergency Management is the function of coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build,
sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened
or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters.

Emergency Management activities and tasks include:
Maintaining and managing the City's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to ensure overall unity of effort
when responding to disasters;
Managing the City's activities related to emergency planning, preparedness, mitigation, response, and
recovery operations;

Coordinate and administer trainings and exercises that prepares City staff, volunteers, and the public to
respond and recover from disasters;

Seek and administer post disaster recovery costs and pre-disaster mitigation grants;
Coordinating and managing the activities of the Northwest Tarrant Civilian Emergency Response Team
(CERT), the operation of City's outdoor warning siren system and the Code RED emergency alerting system.

Ensuring compliance with State and Federal regulations regarding reporting, training, preparation and
operational requirements relating to Emergency Management.

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