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Emergency Management Division

Washington State experiences natural hazards including floods, wind and storm damages, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. The state is especially vulnerable to earthquakes. It also faces technological hazards, including terrorism, nuclear power plant incidents, chemical weapon stockpile incidents, and hazardous materials spills - all of which require well-organized preparedness, coordination, and effective response at the state and local levels. The Emergency Management Division (EMD) focus is to work in partnership with federal, state, and local agencies, volunteers, and private organizations to reduce the potential effects of these hazards. Authority for EMD includes Chapters 38.52 and 38.54 Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and Title 118 Washington Administrative Code (WAC).

Center of Excellence

The Center of Excellence (COE) serves as the Community Technical Colleges (CTC) leader, facilitates curriculum development in related programs, connects with Federal/State educational resources, disseminates information and facilitates articulation processes within the CTC system and with appropriate partners.

Partners

Strong, meaningful partnerships play a critical role in providing homeland security-related training to Washington State’s first responder community. The need is great, widespread geographically, and diverse in terms of the numbers of personnel and disciplines.

These are our primary in-state partners. If you represent an organization who is providing, or would like to provide homeland security-related training to first responders in Washington, we invite you to contact  HSI.

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