Community Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness

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Welcome

Welcome to the City of Great Falls Emergency Preparedness Web Site. The City of Great Falls utilizes a Community Risk Reduction Assessment to determine local hazards and vulnerabilities. With the information from the Assessment, strategies to reduce the hazards can take place.  For more information, visit Great Falls Community Risk Reduction Assessment.

We hope you find the emergency preparedness and Community Risk Reduction information presented here useful.

Preparedness Responsibilities

  • City of Great Falls: The City of Great Falls uses an all hazards approach to disaster management. Our region is susceptible to a multitude of hazards, not just 3 or 4. Taking an all hazards approach allows the City to prepare for any and all events plausible to our area, strengthening our emergency readiness.
  • Emergency Management/Community Risk Reduction: Identifies hazards, plans and prepares for emergencies, works with community partners to educate the public about emergency preparedness, coordinates response and recovery efforts, and distributes emergency information within the City of Great Falls, Montana. Emergency Management responsibilities in the City of Great Falls extend beyond the Fire Department to all municipal government departments and staff and works closely with Cascade County Disaster and Emergency Services.
  • Citizens of Great Falls: Emergency Management ultimately extends to each individual citizen in the community and to every business and non-government agency within the City of Great Falls. Preparedness and response capability is a community wide responsibility and it is the City’s policy to foster that philosophy at all levels.
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