Schuylkill County Emergency Management Agency

The Schuylkill County Emergency Management Agency (SCEMA) directs, controls, and coordinates response efforts on behalf of the County Commissioners during a major disaster. The Agency also assists both public and private entities in developing mitigation plans to lessen the impact of disasters, through hazardous identification and risk assessment.

Our Mission is to maintain a county-wide organization comprised of staff from key government agencies, municipalities, the industrial and business sector, public health and the emergency services in a state of readiness and training to take immediate action to protect lives, property, and the environment and lessen human hardship and suffering during major disaster conditions.

We partner with local municipalities, school districts, hospitals, business and industry, utilities, the emergency services, adjacent counties and state agencies to develop and deliver disaster exercises to insure everyone is prepared in the event of a real disaster.