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In the US state of Florida, every county has an Emergency Operations Center. The state has one in Tallahassee. It is a public building, that has responsibility for emergency management. Some may also manage the EMS services. When a hurricane is declared, the EMS is manned 24/7. I suspect that other states may have similar facilities. In some counties it may be colocated with a EMS station, or other public safety facility, but that is not a requirement. How did I tag this ? |
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For the EMS portion There has been one use of As you mentioned there is also That is how I tagged it. I considered government=emergency_operations, but that would have gone deeper into uncharted territory. There are about 5 such EOC facilities that I will be tagging over the next week.
(24 Jul '20, 13:00)
NitaRae
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Do all of these facilities have teams that interact directly with the public or are some of them purely internal to the government?
I believe both, they are there to respond to the public during an emergency, and to interface with the county leadership and public safety departments. They are, during a declared emergency situation, a nexus of sorts (for lack of a better term).
They also, at the county level, interface with the state level EOC.
for the moment, unless a better alternative exists, I will use building=government and government=emergency. The latter value does not appear to have a specific meaning defined.