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The Florida Department of Health in Broward County’s Office of Emergency Operations is responsible for supporting the goals and objectives of the Florida Public Health and Healthcare Preparedness Strategic Plan. Some examples of these responsibilities include:
• Preparedness and Information Management
• Incident Management
• Surge Management
• Countermeasures and Mitigation
• Detection, Surveillance, and Investigation
• Community Resilience
An effective Public Health Preparedness / Emergency Operations program should always remain as one of the highest priorities of state and local government. An effective program must work hard to:
• Anticipate and manage all possibilities
• Consider all options
• Be prepared
• Work together with all partners
Individual organizations and citizens must also accept responsibility to be aware of the risks involved from terrorist acts, disease outbreaks, natural or man-made disasters and other public health threats. Our community should be prepared, within their own means and abilities, to be protective when necessary, for their own safety, as well as that of their families, friends and property. Only through a proactive partnership between the public and private sectors can all the citizens of Broward County be best protected and served.
Important Links and Information
• Broward County Hurricane Safety Guide and Evacuation Map (pdf 1.82 meg)
• Broward Emergency Management Agency
• CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response
• Family Preparedness (pdf 700 kb)
• FEMA: Are you Ready? in Spanish
• Find your Area Contact
• Florida's 2012 Severe Weather Awareness Guide (pdf 5.38 meg)
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• Generator-Equipped Stores in Broward County
• Home Safety
• Hurricane Public Information
• National Hurricane Center: Jun-Nov
• Medical Reserve Corps
• Ready.gov
• Register to join the Broward MRC
• Television Stations Simulcasting on Radio or Other TV Stations
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