Community Lifelines

Pierce County’s All Hazard Mitigation Plan covers over 900,000 residents across 76 jurisdictions. A key part of the planning process is to seek input from all individuals and groups. Those who do not take part in updating the plan are less likely to understand or use it. With 76 jurisdictions and many partners, it was hard to engage everyone in the planning process. Also, once the HMP was updated, they all had to adopt the plan. The jurisdictions had different timelines, and the county has many hazards. It needed a planning process for all members of the area that would help address each hazard risk.

Join FEMA’s webinar series and provide feedback to help enhance our Community Lifelines construct. Open to all state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.

FEMA, MDEM and Baltimore host Building Resilience Infrastructure and Communities News Conference at MedStar Health on August 22, 2022 at 8:30am

FEMA developed the community lifelines construct to increase effectiveness in disaster operations and better position the Agency to respond to catastrophic incidents.

El Administrador Auxiliar Interino de Resiliencia de FEMA, Alex Amparo, dialoga sobre cómo esta nueva guía ayudará a que los funcionarios de manejo de emergencias en todos los niveles de los sectores público y privado puedan establecer alianzas con el fin de aumentar la resiliencia comunitaria.