Disaster Wheel
This is natural hazard is most frequent throughout the entire county.
What is flooding?
This countywide mass notification system allows residents to receive emergency alerts via a phone call, text message, email or app push notification.
What is Rave / Smart 911 (Grays Harbor County Emergency Alerts)?
This phase begins immediately after an incident occurs to save lives and protect property?
This is the unfamiliar place where uncomfortable officials gather to make unpopular decisions, based on incomplete information, allocating inadequate resources, for unanticipated requirements, in too little time.......
or an emergency coordination facility.
What is the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)?
This is everyone's HIGHEST ranking hazard.
What is earthquake?
This is Mother Nature's warning that a earthquake is occuring?
What is ground shaking?
This phase focuses on restoring the community after a disaster.
What is Recovery?
This type of work ensures a coordinated approach to emergencies and disasters by protects life, property, and the environment; involves government, private sector, nonprofits, and the public; and applies to all hazards
What is Emergency Management?
These tall, "marshmallows on a stick", devices go off when a Tsunami Warning has been issued.
What is the All-Hazard Alert Broadcasting (AHAB) Sirens (Tsunami Sirens)?
This is the highest of evacuation levels, which means GO NOW!
What is a Level 3 evacuation notice.
This phase includes planning, training, and exercises before an emergency?
What is Preparedness?
This what you should do when you feel the ground shaking.
What is Drop, Cover, and Hold On
This type of Tsunami is when we do not feel the ground shaking.
What is a distant tsunami?
Like "Amber Alerts", this system allows direct notification to cellular phone users regardless of if they have opted in for a local Emergency Notification System.
What are Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)?
This phase of emergency management focuses on reducing or eliminating risk BEFORE a disaster occurs?
What is Mitigation?
This "thing" makes Emergency Managers most successful.
What are Relationships?
This wildfire risk increases in Grays Harbor County where residential areas border forested or undeveloped land.
What is the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)?
This device sits somewhere inside your home or business and is meant to be used as an Indoor Warning system
What is NOAA Weather Radio?
This person is the Director of Emergency Management in Grays Harbor County
Who is the Sheriff?
This item keeps emergency supplies for use in emergency evacuation and is kept in a readily accessible location.
What is a GO BAG?