Emergency Management
911 Communications

Saving Lives and Protecting Property
through Mitigation and Preparedness

 
911 Emergency Communications
Our 9-1-1 Communications Specialists provide an around-the-clock communications link between those who need help and the City's police, fire, and medical professionals.

We estimate that every year we:

  • dispatch 55,000 police calls;
  • dispatch 4,000 fire & medical calls; 
  • answer 250,000 911/telephone calls;
  • answer 250,000 pieces of radio traffic;
  • send & receive 450,000 law-enforcement teletype messages.
Emergency Management
Our Emergency Management staff research and develop response plans for the events occurring prior to, during, and after a disaster or large emergency, as well as providing severe weather spotting services. Years ago, as "Civil Defense", our primary focus was the protection of the civilian population during time of war. Today we take a far more comprehensive, all-hazards approach to planning and managing emergency events resulting from severe weather, transportation accidents, hazardous materials releases, floods, earthquakes, wildfire, terrorism and civil disorder, as well as warfare.
 

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Severe Weather Info

1.  The City has no public weather shelters.  Shelter in your home.  If you live in a mobile home or upstairs apartment, make arrangements to go elsewhere prior to storm arrival.

We have no desire to place our residents into their cars during storms!

There are no public buildings in Moore capable of providing better shelter than you can get in your home.

Schools are not opened as weather shelters (see above).

2.  Our sirens test themselves (quietly!) every morning at 5am, and report the results directly to our EOC via radio.  Audible tests for the public are conducted on Saturdays at noon when the weather is good.

Occasionally we decide not to test ours on Saturdays due to weather.  However, the City of Oklahoma City may still test theirs, some of which can be heard in Moore.

3.  We program NOAA Weather/All-Hazards Radios for free!  Call us at 793-4477 to make an appointment!

4.  If you'd like the codes to program your weather radio yourself:

  • Frequency: Ch. 1, 162.400 mhz
  • Cleveland Co: 040027
  • McClain Co:  040087
  • Oklahoma Co:  040109

5. Click here for your copy of our handy Oklahoma Weather Tracking Map.  This map has all of the Oklahoma counties that the National Weather Service issues watches and warnings for, along with a local area map so you can know when the weather is getting close.  The map also contains some basic severe weather safety information.


AVIAN FLU INFORMATION RESOURCES

National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
State Health Dept. Flu Website

Individual/Family Flu Preparedness Checklist
Business Preparedness Checklist


The City of Moore has an telephone-notification system which can give you time-critical information during disasters.  Individuals and businesses have the ability to add their own phone numbers directly to the system's telephone database by clicking here.   (Moore residents/businesses only)

More info on CodeRED

Note:  If you wish your number removed from our CodeRED system, please send an email to the Emergency Management Director stating your name, address, and telephone numbers you wish removed. We'd also be interested in the reason you're requesting removal.


Are You Ready for Disaster?
See our Tornado Safety and Terrorism Preparedness Pages!

OK-WARN is an initiative from the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management to provide weather warnings to the deaf/hard of hearing community via pager. Click for more information or for a sign-up form.
EM volunteer agreements will (hopefully) be distributed at the next REACT meetings.  These will require minimum training standards (including IS-100, IS-700, Spotter), and will outline the standards for provision and use of ID badges and 800 mhz system radios.
Spotter training was conducted on Wednesday, February 21st at the National Weather Center in Norman.  If you missed, other spotter training sessions can be found here.
The spotter location map can be downloaded here.  All locations are the same as in the past, it's just on a newer map.
State EM offers free weather paging, here's the form to sign-up.

Links to ICS/NIMS courses required for all Communications personnel and Emergency Management volunteers:

 

 
 

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