The Kanawha County Commission’s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is responsible for the following:

• Maintaining guidelines for the response to emergency situations and implementing those plans, as needed
• Acquiring resources needed to respond to an emergency situation
• Coordinating the efforts of our response agencies
• Coordination of efforts to insure that the county recovers from any disaster, in order to preserve the life safety, environment and economy of Kanawha County
• Maintaining Kanawha County’s Emergency Operations Center and staffing it, as needed

Our website is located at http://kanawha.us/emergency-management/