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Oregon Emergency Management outlines 2025 response figures, seeks federal reimbursements and readies ORS Watch Center
Summary
OEM Director Erin McMahon told the committee that 2025 brought floods, wildfires and storms; OEM distributed $5 million for a preparedness stockpile in 2025, processed $571 million in reimbursements, and said roughly $149 million in reimbursements remains pending at DHS. The ORS Watch Center is scheduled to launch 07/01/2026.
Erin McMahon, director of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management and the state’s homeland security advisor, briefed the Senate interim committee on Jan. 14 on the agency’s 2025 workload and priorities for 2026.
"To protect and prepare the people of Oregon and strengthen resilience for the communities that we serve," McMahon said, framing OEM’s work as both crisis response and steady preparedness. She recounted a year of severe floods, a challenging wildfire season and winter storms, and described how OEM coordinated with local governments, tribal partners, first responders and nonprofits during those events.
McMahon provided several concrete figures:…
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