Emergency Services

 

Emergency services includes all activities undertaken to prevent, minimize, and repair injuries and damages resulting from natural or manmade disasters.  The Virginia Emergency Services and Disaster Law provides for coordination of efforts to respond to disasters resulting from fires, floods, earthquakes, industrial or transportation accidents, power failure, oil spills, recourse shortages, enemy attack, or other causes.  Each local jurisdiction must have a director of emergency services.  The director must be either the chief administrative officer of the county or a member of the board of supervisors chosen by the other members.  With the consent of the governing body, the director may appoint a coordinator of emergency services. 

Peggy R. Wiley, Director

K. David Whittington,  Coordinator

,  Deputy Coordinator


Each local and interjurisdictional agency is required to prepare and keep current a local emergency operations plan (EOP), which assigns responsibilities to local agencies and establishes a chain of command.  The director of each local organization for emergency services is authorized to enter mutual aid agreements with other public and private agencies within the state or within an adjacent state. 

In late 2003, the Greensville County Emergency Operations Plan was revised and readopted by the Greensville County Board of Supervisors.