(1) Chapter 38.52 RCW authorizes and directs the establishment of a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan for the provision of emergency services in any natural disaster or man-made calamity in accordance with the State Emergency Services Plan. The purpose of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan is to establish responsibilities for information analysis and planning for provision of essential functions including: law enforcement and firefighting, telecommunications and emergency alert warning, public works and engineering, public health, medical services and mass care of injured persons, search and rescue, hazardous materials control, provision of food, water and energy, coordination of military support from the state, recovery and restoration of an area struck by a disaster emergency, damage assessment and a transportation and evacuation movement plan to be utilized during a disaster emergency event.

(2) The Fire Chief shall serve as Disaster Emergency Coordinator whose responsibilities shall include review and update of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, maintaining liaison with the state and federal agencies during the planning process for emergency management preparedness, conducting training and exercises pertaining to disaster preparedness, and overseeing the implementation of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan during actual emergencies, from the warning stage through the mitigation stage. The Disaster Emergency Coordinator shall also be responsible for activating the Emergency Operations Center upon declaration of an emergency by the Mayor.

(3) Local Emergency Planning Committee. A Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) shall be responsible for periodic review of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan and to make recommendations for the incorporation of revisions to include, but not be limited to, emergency response planning, community right to know on hazardous materials, and the structure of a unified command for multi-agency responses to emergency or disaster events. The Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan shall be developed, promulgated and maintained in accordance with applicable provisions of state and federal law. (Ord. 22-8 §3, 2022; Ord. 04-10 §2, 2004; Ord. 01-26 §2, 2001).