EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATION: CAMP MURRAY
Robert Ezelle
Jason Marquiss
MISSION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVISION The Washington State Emergency Management Division (EMD) leads and coordinates mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery in Washington State to minimize the impacts of disasters and emergencies on the people, property, environment and the economy.
EMD’s major business operations include the Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Unit, State E911 Coordination Office (SECO) Unit, the Operations Unit consisting of the Preparedness, Response, and Mitigation and Recovery Sections and the Financial Operations Section. EMD delivers more than 30 separate homeland security and emergency management programs that support stakeholders across the whole of government (tribal, federal, state and local) that benefit the whole community and focus priorities with our emergency management customers. EMD operates the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) located at Camp Murray. The SEOC is the state’s central location for issuing alerts and warnings of impending emergencies and disasters, information gathering, disaster analysis and response coordination. EMD coordinates the state’s response activities with other state agencies via those agencies’ liaisons to the SEOC.
Vice President Mike Pence addresses the staff at the State Emergency Operations Center prior to holding a press conference regarding the COVID-19 outbreak in Washington State on March 5, 2020. (Photo by Steven Friederich)
