The City of North Las Vegas Emergency Management team works to keep residents and businesses safe in the event of a major emergency or disaster. The division is responsible for the City's preparedness, prevention, response and recovery programs to protect citizens and industry in an emergency.

The Emergency Management Division develops and maintains the City's emergency operations plan and is ready to activate the City's Emergency Operations Center as needed.

What is Emergency Management?

Governance

North Las Vegas Municipal Code 2.32

“Emergency management” means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize and repair injury and damage resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or by fire, flood, earthquake or other natural causes. These functions include firefighting, police services, medical and health service, searches, rescues, engineering, air raid warning devices, communications, radiological, chemical and other special weapons of defense, evacuation of persons from stricken areas, emergency welfare services (Civilian war aid), emergency transportation, existing or properly assigned functions of plant protection, temporary restoration of public services, and other activities necessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of the foregoing functions.

NRS 414.035 

“Emergency management” defined. “Emergency management” means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, to minimize injury and repair damage resulting from emergencies or disasters caused by enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, by fire, flood, earthquake, storm or other natural causes, or by technological or man-made catastrophes, including, without limitation, a crisis involving violence on school property, at a school activity or on a school bus. These functions include, without limitation:

1. The provision of support for search and rescue operations for persons and property in distress.
2. Organized analysis, planning and coordination of available resources for the mitigation of, preparation for, response to or recovery from emergencies or disasters.

(Added to NRS by 1983, 1351; A 1999, 1242; 2001, 1337)

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