Ashland Emergency Management
Emergency Management includes mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Weather events experienced locally, around the state, and nationally are a constant reminder of our potential vulnerability to natural disasters, and the importance of active mitigation and preparedness.
Goals:
- Mitigation: Educate the public and insure they know how to receive and respond to early warning to reduce personal harm, suffering or hardship: property or economic loss: and reduce widespread disruption of routine community activities and services.
- Preparation: Coordinate and manage necessary resources and personnel; to respond when situations and events do occur.
- Response: Coordinate an effective response early enough in the disaster to reduce the degree of harm, suffering, hardship and disruption associated with those situations and events which cannot be prevented.
- Recovery: Timely restoration of essential services, support systems and routine operations after a situation and events do occur.
The Ashland emergency management team is a collaboration of police, fire, public works, water and sewer departments, as well as the town manager, select board, planning/zoning boards and the Ashland School District.
At this time the emergency management team is initiating the revision of our 2019 Hazard Mitigation Plan. We are inviting all stakeholders, including local and regional agencies, citizens, businesses and other interested parties from Ashland to participate.
RESOURCES
- New Hampshire Department of Safety
- Ready New Hampshire
- Ready
- National Flood Insurance Program & FloodSmart
- National Fire Protection Association
- Department of Environmental Services
- New Hampshire Health Alert Network
If you’re interested in receiving notifications of town-wide emergencies and events, please register at https://ashlandnh.genasys.com/portal/en This will allow our community to stay informed about emergencies and other events that may affect our community.