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The Washington Military Department is a branch of the
The Washington State Emergency Operations Center is located at Camp Murray, under the Military Department's Emergency Management Division. The 28,000 square foot facility, occupied since mid 1998, is built on rollers to withstand earthquakes. The Emergency Operations Center was activated for the
The Washington Military Department is a branch of the state government
A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonomy, or ...
of Washington, United States.
The Washington State Military Department has several major operational divisions:
* Washington Emergency Management Division
* Washington Army National Guard
* Washington Air National Guard
* Washington State Guard ''( en, For State and Country)
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* Washington Youth Academy
* State & Federal Support Services
These divisions use state and federal resources to perform homeland defense, homeland security, and emergency mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities.
Washington State Emergency Operations Center
The Washington State Emergency Operations Center is located at Camp Murray, under the Military Department's Emergency Management Division. The 28,000 square foot facility, occupied since mid 1998, is built on rollers to withstand earthquakes. The Emergency Operations Center was activated for the 2012 Washington wildfires
The 2012 Washington wildfires were a series of 1,342 wildfires that burned over the course of 2012. The fires primarily occurred in the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests during September and October 2012. A severe lightning storm on Septem ...
, 2015 Washington wildfires
The 2015 wildfire season was the largest in Washington state history, with more than burning across the state from June to September. As many as 3,000 firefighters including 800 Washington National Guard members were deployed to fight the fires. ...
, 2016 Washington wildfires
The 2016 Washington wildfires season were a series of wildfires in the U.S. state of Washington, notable because of brush fires near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and because of brush fires near Spokane, Washington.
During the summer of 2016 (i ...
, 2018 Washington wildfires
The 2018 Washington wildfire season officially began June 1, 2018. A statewide state of emergency was declared by Governor Jay Inslee on July 31.
Training and preparedness
State level planning for the fire season began at least as early as Januar ...
, and for the 2020 coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...
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See also
*Washington Naval Militia The Washington Naval Militia is the currently inactive naval militia of the state of Washington. The Washington Naval Militia was organized as a naval reserve, serving as the naval parallel to the Washington National Guard.
History
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References
External links
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