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Boise emergency management outlines incident response, EOC use and neighborhood preparedness program
Summary
Emergency management described city incident-command procedures, critical communications, a mobile EOC trailer, special-events coordination (204 events in 2025, 9 EOC activations) and a neighborhood preparedness pilot expanding to other associations.
Boise’s emergency management office outlined how the city prepares for, responds to and recovers from incidents — from infrastructure failures to wildfires — and described new neighborhood preparedness support that will be offered to associations across the city.
Rachel Holford, who leads the two-person emergency management office housed within the fire department, told council the office focuses on preparedness, stakeholder engagement, response support, training and grants. She said the office is working to make continuity-of-operations plans (COOP) quick to…
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