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Kitsap County adopts revised multi-hazard mitigation plan incorporating FEMA 2023 guidance
Summary
The county adopted a revised multi-hazard mitigation plan after a presentation by Kitsap Department of Emergency Management that described updated hazard modeling, mitigation strategies and countywide coordination required to secure federal mitigation funding.
Kitsap County on Jan. 27 adopted a revised Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan that updates the county’s five-year mitigation priorities, incorporates lessons from recent disasters and aligns the county with FEMA’s 2023 mitigation planning policy.
Brian Nielsen, plans, training and exercise officer with the Kitsap Department of Emergency Management (DEM), told commissioners the full plan runs 390 pages and includes hazard-specific mitigation strategies for flooding, storms and tornadoes, earthquake debris management and wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface. He said the plan is required by the federal government to secure FEMA mitigation grant funding and must be reviewed…
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