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EMERGENCY MANAGEMNT
The Smyrna Fire Department’s Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) is dedicated to advancing the principles of prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and recovery from natural and manmade disasters. SEMA works closely with all city departments, employees, businesses, and citizens as well as local, state, and federal partners to manage threats and hazards to the City of Smyrna.
SEMA’s mission is carried out by assisting and educating Smyrna stakeholders in hazard identification and prevention, disaster response training for personnel and public alerting of imminent hazardous events, as well as plans development and data collection for city decision makers. SEMA is dedicated to building a culture of resiliency and preparedness with the community.
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2022 Highlights
• Establishment of the Smyrna Unified Planning Committee.
• Hosting of Spring 2022 Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) course.
• Development of standardized emergency planning process for city events.
• Hosted quarterly discussed based exercises on the topic of disaster planning for multiple city departments.
• Managed the establishment and implementation of the Smyrna Fire Department’s Drone Program.
