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The Fire Department's Emergency Services Division offers a wide variety of programs for the community:

Download a copy of the Emergency Services Program Brochure

The Emergency Services Division's primary role is to prepare and maintain the City's emergency plans in accordance with local, state, and federal legislation, and coordinate and serve as a technical advisor to the City's emergency organization, and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activities.

The Emergency Services Coordinator assists Department Heads and Coordinators with planning for events/incidents; coordinating emergency response and recovery plans with neighboring cities, local agencies and businesses; participate in mitigation and preparedness programs, plans, and projects.

The Emergency Services Coordinator perform a variety of key assignments:

  • Terrorism Liaison Official (TLO) - participates in homeland security (domestic terrorism) planning, serving as a terrorism liaison official in conjunction with the El Segundo Police Department, County of Los Angeles, State of California and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security;
  • NIMS- point of contact for all city-wide training for the National incident Management System, the Incident Command System and the Standarized Emergency Management System;
  • Grants - assist with research, emergency equipment acquisition; manage the application process for state and federal disaster reimbursement or hazard mitigation funds;
  • Education - assisting and educating residential and business community groups;
  • Liaison with local, state, and federal emergency service agencies;
  • Training and Exercises - develops and implements disaster exercises; manage city disaster preparedness equipment, supplies and materials programs; implement emergency services training program for all city staff;
  • Planning - update and revise the City's Emergency Operations Plan as needed; update and revise the city's hazard mitigation plan as needed; develop and maintain the City's disaster recovery plan;
  • Programs Management - serve as program manager for the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.), amateur radio group (RACES/ESARG);
  • Disaster Recovery - in declared emergency - facilitate the disaster recovery process in coordination with the City Manager and City Council.

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