Emergency Preparedness - Washington County

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK
Office of the County Executive
Emergency Management
Joshua Schoemann, County Executive
Dustin Lofy, Emergency Management Coordinator

April 2, 2026
For Immediate Release: 
Contact: Washington Co.
Emergency Management
(262) 335-4399

Emergency Preparedness Resources: Plans and Alerts
West Bend, WI – Does your family have an emergency plan for when disaster strikes? Has it been recently updated? Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to know which types of disasters could affect your area and make or update your plan, so you and your family are ready when disaster strikes!

Check out Ready.Gov Make a Plan (ready.gov/plan) and follow the easy, 4-Step process so you can be prepared:

Step 1: Put a plan together by discussing the information in the hyperlink above with your family, friends or household to start your emergency plan.
Step 2: Consider specific needs in your household such as ages of household members, responsibilities for assisting others, dietary needs, medical needs, disabilities or access and functional needs, pets or service animals and cultural and religious considerations.
Step 3: Create a Family Emergency Plan using the Ready.Gov’s quick and easy fillable form in the hyperlink. The Ready.Gov ‘Make A Plan’ site is available in a dozen languages.
Step 4: Practice your plan with your family/ household. Practicing and testing your family’s plan will help everyone understand the plan’s components, actions to be taken and help refine the plan, as needed.

In addition to making a plan, members of the community should maintain situational awareness for important public safety alerts such as weather watches & warnings by monitoring local media, mobile device alerts, NOAA weather radios and other alerting sources to be prepared.

Washington County Office of Emergency Management encourages members of the community to Make a Plan, so you and your family are ready when disaster strikes!

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