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The Department of Emergency Management was created in 2003 during the term of Governor Brad Henry by the Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003. Today it is the central point of contact for coordination of four closely allied functions: Hazard Mitigation, Community Preparedness, Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery.
The Oklahoma Emergency Response Act (27A O.S. Section 4-1-101 – 4-1-106) is an Oklahoma state law governing emergency response through the state. The act creates a network for rapid response to hazardous material incidents and other events that threaten the public health and safety.
The police departments and sheriff's offices of thousands of towns, cities, and counties across the United States have tactical units, which are usually called Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Sheriff's Emergency Response Team, (SERT), or Emergency Response Team (ERT). Some examples are below.
Mar. 19—Members of the Oklahoma National Guard have been called to assist agencies in a southeast Oklahoma county during next month's total solar eclipse. Officials from the McCurtain County ...
The Emergency Management Act declares its purposes: Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from natural and man-made causes, in order to ensure that preparations of Oklahoma will adequately deal with such disasters and emergencies, to generally provide for the common defense and to protect the public ...
Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief teams are providing aid in response to wildfires in the northwestern part of the state. ... Yarbrough said Oklahoma Baptists teams were deployed for about 190 days ...
It is the first-ever standardized approach to incident management and response. Developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security and put into action in March 2004, it establishes a uniform set of processes and procedures that emergency responders at all levels of government will use to conduct response operations.
A teen community emergency response team (teen CERT), or student emergency response team (SERT), can be formed from any group of teens. [1] A teen CERT can be formed as a school club, service organization, venturing crew, explorer post, or the training can be added to a school's graduation curriculum. Some CERTs form a club or service ...