Differences such as climate, terrain and population are considered when planning your protection. This partnership has helped your community by enhancing emergency plans and providing chemical accident response equipment and warning systems. Your community officials meet in the EOC to get the information they need to help you keep you and your loved ones safe. Chemical stockpile emergency preparedness exercises are held in your community each year. Your community and state join with the Army and FEMA to practice keeping you safe in the unlikely event of a chemical stockpile accident.
Teamwork promotes better decision making and better decision making results in a safer community.
Your community and state emergency professionals identify the specific needs of your community. They bring local perspective and knowledge to the planning process and are the heart of the emergency response effort. FEMA is responsible for helping your community strengthen its ability to respond to emergencies through planning, training and exercises. The Army also is responsible for the safe storage, maintenance and disposal of the chemical stockpile. The Army provides money and expertise through FEMA for many of the emergency-response needs identified by your community's emergency experts.