Emergency Management

The Roosevelt County Emergency Management Goal is to provide the safest possible environment to the residents of the county through the elimination or reduction of hazards and a planned emergency response to natural, manmade and war emergency disasters, including both those limited in scale and large-scale/widespread disasters.

Plans include bringing to bear all resources of the county and municipal governments as well as recover from the effects of a disaster as quickly as possible.

Roosevelt county and communities have contracted with the city of Portales for disaster management, and the Portales Emergency Operations Center (EOC) serves all jurisdictions. The primary EOC is located at 1700 N. Boston, the law enforcement complex. The EOC is equipped with feeding facilities, restrooms, telephones, two-way radio communication, and a generator for emergency power. The EOC could be activated immediately to cope with natural, man-caused, or other related disasters. If for any reason both EOC’s were destroyed, a back-up site would be designated outside the disaster area and local government reconstituted at the site.

The Roosevelt County/City of Portales All-Hazard Plan identifies the existing natural, manmade and war emergency hazards having the potential of causing a disaster affecting a portion or all of the population and area of Roosevelt County including all municipalities.

This plan addresses disaster planning and preparation, response, and recovery. It provides for an overall, coordinated, integrated, countywide disaster management organization with each municipality providing disaster management within its own jurisdiction. Direction and control during a disaster is provided through a coordinated control element operating from an Emergency Operations Center.