The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system is a public safety system in the United States that allows government agencies to send emergency messages to wireless devices in specific geographic areas. The system was created to provide timely and accurate information…
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Family Emergency Plan
Creating a family emergency plan is an important step in preparing for unexpected events that could affect your family’s safety and well-being. Here are some steps to follow to create a family emergency plan: Identify potential emergency situations: Start by…
Gallatin County Awarded Community Wildfire Defense Grant
Gallatin County is pleased to announce that our North Gallatin Front wildfire mitigation project has been selected for funding through the Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program. This project will provide close to $1.6 million in funding from the USDA Forest…
Troy Downing: Are you ready for another flood season?
Article available at:Â https://csimt.gov/2023/03/21/troy-downing-are-you-ready-for-another-flood-season/ My team and I were on the ground in eastern Montana helping families work with their insurance companies to rebuild immediately following the devastating flooding of 2022. Meeting at the civic center in Red Lodge with…
Emergency Community Notifications
Emergency officials ability to quickly and accurately distribute emergency information to those affected is critical for our community. This is also a large challenge for officials with the many different methods people in our community use for communicating and gathering…
SPRING FLOODING – IT’S ALMOST THAT TIME
As Gallatin County moves closer to spring, the risk of spring flooding increases. While we can not predict if Gallatin County will see any spring flooding in 2022, we know that now is the time to prepare your property in…
Hazard Mitigation and Community Wildfire Protection Plan Adopted
After many delays the update of the County’s 2012 Hazard Mitigation Plan and the 2006 Community Wildfire Protection Plan into the combined 2020 Hazard Mitigation and Community Wildfire Protection Plan is complete. This document evaluates risk is various locations around…
Spring Flooding – It’s Almost That Time
As Gallatin County moves closer to spring, the risk of spring flooding increases. While we can not predict if Gallatin County will see any flooding in 2021, we know that now is the time to prepare your property in order…
Family Emergency Plan
Being prepared doesn’t need to be hard! [drop_cap color=”#ffffff” background=”#6CAB00″]1.[/drop_cap] Will you receive direct notifications from emergency officials? Often once of the more challenging pieces of a large emergency if providing accurate information quickly to those who need it. The…
60th Anniversary of Hebgen Lake Earthquake – 8/17/2019
60 years since the 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake: its history and effects on the Yellowstone region Release Date: AUGUST 5, 2019 Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution…