Emergency Management
Lacey Jarrell
Emergency Manager
Emergency Management
Klamath Tribes Emergency Management coordinates Tribal and community resources to protect lives, property, and environmental and cultural resources. Through capacity building, mitigation, preparedness, training, and community education, Emergency Management works to reduce vulnerabilities across the Tribal community and to strengthen the Tribes’ resilience. These efforts ensure the Tribes are ready to respond to, and recover from, any natural or human caused hazard.
Are You Prepared?
After an emergency, you may need to survive on your own for several days. You can take steps now to prepare for an emergency and to cope when it happens. Everyone should get a kit, make a plan, and be informed.
Get a Kit: When essential services are disrupted during a disaster, access to food, water, and electricity may be limited. Building resilience means preparing ahead of time by assembling an emergency supply kit that can sustain your household during these disruptions. Taking steps now strengthens your ability to adapt, remain safe, and recover more quickly when an emergency occurs.
Make a Plan: Your family can build resilience by preparing together before a disaster occurs. Talking through how you will communicate, where you will go to stay safe, and what actions you will take in different emergency situations strengthens your ability to respond effectively when daily life is disrupted. Creating a family plan in advance reduces confusion, protects wellbeing, and ensures that everyone can adapt quickly and safely during a crisis.
Be Informed: Staying informed during an emergency helps you act quickly when every minute counts. Emergency alerts give you real-time updates about threats, evacuation routes, and protective actions. Paying attention to these alerts can help you make faster choices for your family.
Everbridge Mass Notification is Klamath County’s primary emergency notification service to send critical information quickly in a variety of situations, such as fire, severe weather, unexpected road closures, missing persons, and evacuations of buildings or neighborhoods. The county website states that by signing up for Everbridge Mass Notification you can receive time-sensitive messages wherever you specify, such as your cell, business, or home phone; email address; text message; and more.
Genasys Protect is an evacuation zone and geographic information system (GIS) platform used to issue evacuation alerts. Levels 1, 2, and 3 will be published on Genasys. All Level 2 – Be Set, and Level 3 – Go Now! will be issued through Klamath County Everbridge Mass Notifications. However, depending on circumstance, mass notifications may also be used for Level 1 – Be Ready messages. Tribal members residing in Klamath County are encouraged to sign up for both, Everbridge and Genasys.
Genasys Protect is available on your desktop or as an app in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. No login or account is required to access alerts, save locations, and receive push notifications. Genasys publishes notifications from jurisdictions across the country, and users can save up to 10 unique addresses in the app.
If you reside outside Klamath County, visit your county’s website to learn more about the alert systems it recommends and how to sign up for them.
Learn More
- CDC Office of Readiness and Response
- FEMA Ready.gov Disasters and Emergencies
- Klamath County Common Operating Picture
- ShakeAlert in Oregon
- Wildfire Response and Recovery
Incident-specific information