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On behalf of the entire BOLDplanning team, congratulations to Georgia’s Douglas County Emergency Management Office, along with the City of Douglasville (the county seat) on gaining FEMA approval of their recently updated Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP).  HMPs, as [...]

Luna County, New Mexico, and Tennessee-based BOLDplanning recently started the process of updating the County’s existing Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (MJHMP).  The work began with Luna County’s Office of Emergency Management and plan stakeholders being invited to attend a [...]

With 2021 now half over, there’s no time like the present to commit (or recommit) your community or organization to emergency preparedness in the months ahead and into 2022.  For some, that may mean developing or updating a business [...]

If you had only five minutes to walk through your offices and gather essential items (knowing that you had to relocate business operations for a week or more), what would you choose?

When it comes to disaster preparedness and response, today’s government emergency managers know they can (and should) use all the help they can get. Often this help comes directly from volunteers who participate in their jurisdiction’s Community Emergency Response [...]

If you are involved in emergency management, it is more apparent than ever that your state, local, tribal or territorial government cannot go it alone. Likely topping the list for a partner in preparedness is the private sector, which FEMA considers a critical part of any jurisdiction.