The Ulster County Emergency Operations Center (EOC), is supervised by the County Emergency Manager and operates at the direction of the Director of Emergency Services. Additionally in conjunction with county departments, agency liaisons and municipalities it will act as the primary direction and control facility during times of disasters and other warranted emergency situations for the assignment of resources as well as the coordinated response and recovery efforts.
EOC staff is responsible for the overall coordination of Ulster County incident management and resources during disaster response and recovery operations.
The EOC has four core functions:
- Collect, analyze, and share information
- Coordinate response and recovery efforts
- Communicate clearly to all responsible parties, in a unified voice
- Coordinate and track resource requests
In the event of an emergency, we will conduct emergency operations to save lives and property by positioning emergency equipment and supplies; evacuating potential victims; providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to those in need; and restoring critical public service.
The onset of an emergency creates a need for time-sensitive actions to save lives and property, as well as for action to begin stabilizing the situation so that the jurisdiction can regroup. Such response actions include notifying Emergency Response personnel of the crises, warning and evacuating or sheltering the population if possible, keeping the population informed, rescuing individuals, and providing medical treatment, maintaining the rule of law, assessing damage, addressing mitigation issues that arise from response activities, and even requesting help from outside the jurisdiction.