Disaster Roulette
This is natural hazard is most common 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)?
ESF stands for this
What is Emergency Support Function?
This is everyone's HIGHEST ranking hazard.
What is earthquake?
This role helps ensure the right message gets out at the right time.
What is the Public Information Officer (PIO)?
This phase focuses on restoring the community after a disaster.
What is Recovery?
This position manages day-to-day operations inside the Emergency Operations Center once it is activated.
Who is the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Manager?
This was created to improve coordination among agencies at all levels during incidents
What is the National Incident Management System?
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)?
Wildfires in Grays Harbor County often require coordination among local fire districts, state resources, and this agency.
What is the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR)?
This phase includes planning, training, and exercises before an emergency?
What is Preparedness?
This EOC position focuses on gathering and sharing situational awareness.
What is the Planning Section?
When an incident exceeds normal operations, this plan should be referenced to guide coordination and decision-making
What is the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan?
When our hazard bingo card hits, I should contact this on-call position?
Who is the Emergency Management Duty Officer?
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 position serves as the primary point of contact for outside agencies?
Who is the Liaison Officer?
This is the HIGHEST level of activation for the Emergency Operations Center. This activation means activation of all EOC functions to support the incident or impacted jurisdictions.
What is Level 1 - Full Activation?
This wildfire risk increases in Grays Harbor County where residential areas border forested or undeveloped land.
What is the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)?
It’s not a ghost, a rumor, or a group text—this is the person you’re supposed to call when an emergency happens.
Who is the Emergency Management Duty Officer?
This declaration can unlock federal disaster assistance
What is a Major Disaster Declaration?
Any incident that could impact multiple departments, public safety, or require an EOC activation should trigger a call to this role—no matter the time of day.
Who is the Emergency Management Duty Officer?
This document provides roles and responsibilities for CITY staff during an emergency.
Our specific City Annex in the Grays Harbor County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.