National Flood Safety Awareness Week

Recent severe weather events over the past year causing extensive river flooding and areal flooding across the state remind Floridians that they should be prepared for the possibility of floods. The National Weather Service and state emergency management officials encourage residents to update their preparedness plans this week during National Flood Safety Awareness Week, March 15-19, 2010. National Flood Safety Awareness Week is intended to highlight some of the many ways floods can occur, the hazards associated with floods, and what you can do to save life and property.

2009 Hurricane Evacuation Center List

The 2009 Hurricane Evacuation Centers and Bus Pickup Points lists are now available. Click here  to see what shelters may be opened if a hurricane threatens Miami-Dade County and where the Bus Pickup Points are located.

Get Ready for Digital TV

Television stations began broadcasting only in digital in June 2009. Click here to learn what the transition from analog means and what you can do to avoid being blacked out day-to-day and during an emergency.

DEM quarterly e-newsletter - March 2010

Assist DEM as an amateur radio operator

If you are an amateur radio operator and would like to assist DEM during an emergency by gathering important information, click here  to download an application. Please fax the completed application to 305-513-7622.

DEM featured in ESRI publications

ESRI Press published an article written by DEM Geographic Information Systems coordinator Soheila Ajabshir and DEM mitigation expert Frank Reddish in its GIS for Decision Making and Public Policy Making. The article is about major flood mitigation project in Miami-Dade County the DEM coordinated. Click here to read the article. 

The Public Technology Institute and Geospatial Information & Technology Association recently published one of Soheila's articles on how GIS assists DEM's duty officer program. Click here to read the article.

The Department of Emergency Management's preparation for Super Bowl XLI is one of the case studies featured in the publication GIS for Homeland Security from ESRI Press. Two of DEM Geographic Information Systems coordinator Soheila Ajabshir's maps are also included. Read the case study. 

For more information about the publication, visit the ERSI Web site.

DEM, EOC featured in Government Technology magazines

DEM is featured in Emergency Management magazine articles about Storm Prep Expo 2008 and 2009 (April 2009) and about the February 2008 power outage that affected South Florida. (Jan. 2009)

Government Technology magazine offers an short overview of DEM and the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Doral, Fla. (Nov. 2006)  Click here to read

Download the Miami-Dade County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)

Download  and read Volume I of the Miami-Dade County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) and know what the County is doing to keep the community safe and prepared during an emergency.