KnoWhat2Do When Winter Weather Strikes!
 While colder weather may bring a welcome change, many people may not be prepared for it. Freezing rain, snow and ice can make for great outdoor fun—but can also result in interruptions of critical services (water, gas, electricity), car accidents, hypothermia, and carbon monoxide poisoning from defective heating units. But don’t get your mittens in a twist. With a little planning, you can protect yourself and enjoy some frosty fun!
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Emergency Management System
A system of organized analysis, planning, decision-making and assignment of resources to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the effect of all hazards that affect our community.
Principal Objectives
It is the responsibility of the city of Richardson Emergency Management office to preserve, maintain, and/or reconstitute civic government ability to carry out the executive, legislative, and judicial process under the threat of occurrence of any emergency or major disaster that could disrupt normal daily operations.
Its primary day-to-day operation is to identify and to mitigate the effects of natural, technological, environmental emergencies in so far as possible by means of preparing for and responding and recovering from their effects on the community.
Goals of Emergency Management
To ensure the continuity of Government, to coordinate emergency preparedness efforts, to establish, coordinate, and manage the emergency operations center, manage effective and efficient recovery efforts of government, and maintain contact with the citizens its serves.
Regional Public Education Program
In case of emergency, KnoWhat2Do! We face many potential hazards here in North Central Texas, and there are many skilled and caring emergency professionals ready to help if and when disaster strikes. But you are your own best protection. The KnoWhat2Do Web site, developed through the collaboration of our North Central Texas regional governments, will teach you how to Think, Prepare and Act to protect your personal safety and the safety of those around you.
Emergency Management Links
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