Emergency Management
2024 Winter Weather Preparedness Guide
Check out our 2024 Winter Weather Preparedness Guide to help you get ready for anything Mother Nature might throw at you in the season ahead. Read for tips about traveling in the winter, fire safety, protecting your pets, and winter safety for schools!
PREPAREDNESS
The South Dakota Office of Emergency Management (OEM) encourages the development of comprehensive preparedness and disaster management plans, programs, capabilities and organizations by the state and its local governments. Because disasters often disrupt the normal functioning of governments, communities and families, OEM provides the organization necessary to expedite aid, rehabilitation and the rapid acquisition and delivery of resources.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our purpose is to protect South Dakotans and their property from the effects of natural, manmade, and technological disasters. To fulfill our charge, we recognize the four phases of emergency management: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation.
VISION STATEMENT
The Office of Emergency Management strives to create a rapid, effective, and compassionate emergency management system that wholly prepares our citizens, our communities, and our state to be self-reliant when facing emergencies and disasters and rely less on government.
MITIGATION PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND APPLICATIONS
OEM focuses on four key pillars to plan for emergencies, coordinate response, aid in disaster recovery and, through mitigation, reduce or eliminate loss if the same event should happen again.
