Ohio Preparedness Month - September 2025
Prepare Your Home
September is Ohio Preparedness Month! This year, we are focusing on how to prepare your home for a disaster. Each week focuses on a different topic.
- Identify Your Risks
- Plan Ahead
- Mitigation
- Preparedness
- Safety Skills
These area ideas that can translate into preparing your workplace and vehicle as well!
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About Us
The Pickaway County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (PCEMA) is responsible for developing countywide, all-hazard plans for effective preparation, response, and recovery from an emergency or disaster.
We do this by developing and strengthening relationships, keeping an inventory of local capabilities, and bringing everyone to the table to work through what emergencies may affect Pickaway County and how we will lessen the impact.
Our goal is to increase resilience in the community (with residents, businesses, and critical infrastructure) and therefore decrease the impact from a disaster.
The PCEMA staff is currently composed of two full time and one part time staff member. We are responsible for:
- Duties outlined for EMA offices in the Ohio Revised Code including developing plans and conducting training and exercises for the county
- Overseeing the County 911 Program
- Administration and oversight for the 800mhz radio system in the county
- Administrative duties for the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
- Facilitating the county Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan
- Overseeing the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer group
- And many other programs!