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Madera County Office of Emergency Services (OES) operates under the direction of the Madera County Sheriff’s Department.
Madera County is vulnerable to a wide range of disasters including flooding, wildfires, earthquakes, landslides, hazardous materials incidents, transportation accidents and droughts. There is also potential for a public health and agricultural emergencies as well.
The Madera County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the County’s disaster preparedness and response program. In addition, it is responsible for maintaining the County’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), as well as coordinating EOC activities during a disaster.
Within California’s emergency management organizational structure, each county serves as an Operational Area. In this role, Madera County Sheriff’s OES serves as an agent between State OES and the cities, special districts and unincorporated areas of Madera County. During a disaster, this includes gathering information on the County’s emergency response needs, assessing county and state resources, and facilitating the acquisition, use and coordination of those resources.
Role of the Madera County Sheriff
The Sheriff is the Director of Disaster Services for the county. The County’s disaster ordinance has granted the Sheriff a number of powers and duties including the following:
A. Request the board of supervisors to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency if the board of supervisors is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the board of supervisors is not in sessions. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the director, the board of supervisors shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect;
B. Request the chairman of the board of supervisors, or his next in succession, to assemble the board of supervisors at least each seven days, in accordance with the provisions of Government Code, Section 8630, the California Emergency Services Act, for the purpose of reviewing the need for continuing the "local emergency," requesting the board terminate the "local emergency" at the earliest possible date conditions warrant;
C. Request the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when, in the opinion of the director, locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency;
D. Direct and control the effort of the county and all governmental agencies within the county for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter, as authorized by the California Government Code;
E. Direct cooperation between and coordination of services and staff of the county and all governmental agencies within the county, and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between and among them;
In the event of a proclamation of a local emergency as herein provided, the proclamation of a state of emergency by the Governor or the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence of a state of war emergency, the director is hereby empowered to:
A. Make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by the board of supervisors;
B. Obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and to bind the county for the fair value thereof and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use;
C. Require emergency services of any officer or employee of any governmental agency, and in the event of the proclamation of a state of emergency in the county or the existence of a state of war emergency, to command the aid of as many citizens of the county as he deems necessary in the execution of his duties; such persons shall be entitled to all privileges, benefits, and immunities as are provided by state law for registered disaster service workers;
D. Order the arrest, removal or temporary detention of any person who interferes with the activities of an employee of a governmental agency during an officially proclaimed local emergency, state of emergency, or state of war emergency, as specified in Section 2.78.150;
E. Requisition necessary personnel or material of any department or agency in this county;
F. Execute all of his ordinary power as county administrative officer
Role of the Madera County Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
An Emergency Operations Center is a pre-designated facility established by an agency or jurisdiction to coordinate the overall agency or jurisdictional response and support to an emergency. The County’s EOC is activated when the field level responders need additional support.
As Director and Operational Area Coordinator, the Sheriff may be required to activate the EOC under the following conditions:
- A local government has activated its EOC and requests activation of the operational area EOC to support their emergency operations.
- Two or more cities within the operational area have proclaimed a local emergency.
- The County and/or cities within the county have requested a governor’s proclamation of a State of Emergency.
- The operational area is requesting, or has received, resources from outside its boundaries. This does not include resources used in day-to-day operations, which are obtained through existing mutual aid agreements.
The County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) serves as the central point for activating the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for broadcasting emergency information to residents.
The EAS is a national public warning system that requires broadcasters, cable television systems, wireless cable systems, satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS) providers, and direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers to provide the communications capability to the President to address the American public during a national emergency. The system also may be used by state and local authorities to deliver important emergency information, such as AMBER alerts and weather information targeted to specific areas.
CRITICAL CONTACT INFORMATION
| To Obtain Emergency Information Tune To One of the Radio Stations |
KMJ 580 AM |
| KBIF 900 AM (Asian) |
| KEYQ 980 AM (Spanish) |
| To Obtain Emergency Information Tune To One of the TV Stations |
KFSN (ABC 30), KGPE (CBS 47) |
| KSEE (NBC 24), KMPH (Fox 26) |
| KFTV (Univision 21 -- Spanish) |
| Local Emergency Offices |
Madera County Sheriff’s Office |
559-675-7770, or 1-800-560-4911 |
| Madera Police |
559-675-4200 |
| Chowchilla Police |
559-665-8600 |
| Fire (Madera County) |
559-675-7799 |
| Fire (Dept. of Forestry) |
209-966-3622 |
| California Highway Patrol (CHP) |
559-675-1025 |
| County Departments & Cooperating Agencies |
Animal Control |
559-675-7891 |
| Environmental Health |
559-675-7823 |
| American Red Cross (Fresno & Madera) |
559-455-1000 |
| Public Health |
559-675-7893 (Madera) |
| Public Health |
559-658-7456 (Oakhurst) |
For more information click on following links
Disaster Information-Recovery & Assistance
Emergency 911 Evacuation Information Hospitals & Clinics
Evacuation Guidelines – Are You Prepared?
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