Click on the calendar to find out more. It is the first phase of disaster planning and operations. In Miami-Dade County, the Office of Emergency Management in cooperation with municipalities, private sector, and the Florida Department of Community Affairs has developed a Local Mitigation Strategy. The strategy has identified many things that can reduce damages from hurricanes and make the recovery from disaster much more less difficult. The Local Mitigation Strategy Steering Committee is finalizing the Mitigation Initiatives in the Local Mitigation Strategy that will make our communities disaster resistant.
Luck is the derivative of good planning.
OEM has a variety of tools available to assist Miami-Dade residents prepare for the types of disasters typical to the county. There are Answer Pages that will detail how to protect your family and household. Answer Center is updated continuously, including such things as sheltering information, evacuation routes, locations of disaster assistance facilities and other vital information. When disasters have struck any part of the world, people are literally on their own, relying only on their neighbors. The Community Emergency Response Team or CERT is a nationally recognized training program available to Miami-Dade residents to teach them how to respond to disasters in their own neighborhoods.