509 Main Street . Records Building 3rd Floor, Room 305 . Dallas, Texas 75202 . Telephone: 214-653-7980

Emergency management Facility
Dallas County is the ninth largest county in the United States and the second largest County in the State of Texas. Dallas County is home to approximately 2.5 million residents and numerous visitors who arrive annually to visit the JFK museum, school book depository, Dealey Plaza, grassy knoll and the Kennedy Memorial Park among other key locations. Dallas County’s demographics have increased exponentially over the years with its diverse economy, population as well as tourist attractions. Consequently, with this increase comes additional responsibility to develop best practices in preparation to protect residents and visitors alike during emergency incidents regardless of origin, size or causation. Dallas County’s Commissioners Court has responded to these challenges in numerous ways. Commissioners Court has approved the hiring of additional new personnel to the Sheriff’s Department, Constables Precincts and other critical support functions as well as the construction of two (2) new jail towers to house violent criminal offenders.

Incident Management System
Dallas County’s Emergency Management Office has launched a web-based Incident Management System (ETEAM) software, which will increase the ability to coordinate disaster response and recovery with Federal, State, neighboring counties and other municipal agencies to coordinate disaster responses. This software will connect the Dallas County Emergency Operations Center with all cities in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise Counties, the State of Texas EOC and the FEMA Region 6 Emergency Operations Center. The lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are enormous. Among them is the ability to partner with additional outside agencies to respond to all hazards in a more unified way.

This software application increases the Dallas County’s regional capability regarding interoperability, communications, response and other critical resources that are necessary for a timely response when time is of the essence. Since there is no such thing as a unilateral, totally prepared, jurisdiction for all crises, this will allow Dallas County to assist partnering jurisdictions as well as receive assistance during mutual aid incident requirements.