GRAND COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

Emergency management protects communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is vital to centralized coordination within this system. 

The EOC is responsible for supporting all incident operations within Grand County. Activation is based on the analysis of an emergency or disaster that affects all or part of Grand County or the region. Additionally, the EOC is the coordination point for all consequence management activities – those events that are outside the incident footprint or scope but affect community members. This may include public information management, air quality reporting, mass sheltering and feeding operations, medical surges at hospitals, county-wide situational awareness, policy direction, etc. 

The priority is to coordinate between multiple agencies and jurisdictions to ensure the needs of the community are met and the incident is stabilized.