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/