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Office of Emergency Services
The Office of Emergency Services serves the communities of Sierra County in times of major disasters. Our goal is to protect the lives and property by assisting first responders to help manage resources. This office works with, and is under the auspices of the California Office of Emergency Services(CalOES).
Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Due to it's unique abilities to respond to infectious, occupational, or environmental incidents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plays a pivotal role in ensuring that state and local public health systems are prepared for these and other public health incidents.
The Health Department’s role in emergency is focused on disease prevention and reporting, medical needs beyond first response, medical surge at local clinics, assist with medical needs of displaced people, response to disease outbreak related to food borne illness, chemical contamination, and viruses.
CDC identified the following 15 public health preparedness capabilities as the basis for state and local public health preparedness:
Incident Management- Emergency Operations CoordinationBiosurveillance- Public Health Laboratory Testing- Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Investigation Information Management- Emergency Public Information and Warning- Information Sharing Community Resilience - Information Sharing- Community Preparedness- Community Recovery | Surge Management- Fatality Management- Mass Care - Medical Surge - Volunteer Management Countermeasures and Mitigation- Medical Countermeasure Dispensing- Medical Materiel Management and Distribution - Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions - Responder Safety and Health |
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Office of Emergency Services
Physical Address
101 Courthouse Square
P.O. Box 530
Downieville, CA 95936
Phone: 530-289-2850Fax: 530-289-2828
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Michael Fisher
OES DirectorPhone: (530)289-2850
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LeTina Vanetti
Emergency Services Coordinator III
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Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Physical Address
350 Third St.
Loyalton, CA 96118
Phone: 530-993-6737Fax: 530-993-4278