Emergency Management Links

The following links offer additional emergency management information, weather in our local area, hazardous materials, and other useful information.

Rapid City. This site provides excellent information on the weather found in the Black Hills and the rest of our area. You can get daily forecasts, regional forecasts, climatological data, and weather preparedness information.

Rapid City Area. This link gives the viewer a look at the weather over our entire region.

The information you need on all the different departments and agencies in Pennington County.

Information about Law Enforcement services and programs offered through the Pennington County Sheriff's Office, including the Pennington County Jail, Juvenile Services, and Alcohol and Drug Programs

Rapid City Home Page
City of Rapid City departments, community links, vacation destinations and business opportunities in Rapid City.

A proactive organization staffing 135 professional men and women focusing their efforts on public education, fire prevention, preparedness and overall community risk reduction.

Serving the nearly 70,000 citizens of Rapid City. RCPD is one of the most progressive law enforcement agencies in the region and is the only internationally accredited police department in South Dakota.

The Black Hills Area Chapter of the American Red Cross serves 19 counties in Western South Dakota covering an area of almost 38,000 square miles.

The state of South Dakota encourages preparedness activities. Their bReady campaign offers a variety of ways for citizens to learn more about getting prepared; at home, at school and at work.

This site details the many activities and programs on-going in the State of South Dakota. Plus, it paints a map of where SD emergency management regional coordinators are located.

This extensive site by the primary federal agency tasked with responding to and helping communities recover from disaster, provides information on current disasters, preparedness and mitigation actions, training opportunities, flood maps, a kid's section, a virtual reference library, and information for disaster victims on filing for benefits and recovering from disasters.

This site provides information on all Red Cross services, its chapters, health and safety services, and disaster-specific preparedness information.

This site provides access to EPA documents describing environmental information, as well as links to Information Locators that can be obtained from the EPA and related organizations.

This site provides information on how pet and animal owners should prepare for disasters.

This site includes information on what casualty losses can be deducted on Federal income tax returns for the year of the loss or through immediate amendment to the previous year's return.

Volunteers who help clean-up and repair following natural disasters and who work closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross in responding to disasters in North America.

NOVAD coordinates planning efforts by many voluntary organizations responding to disasters. Member organizations provide more effective and less duplicative efforts in service by getting together before disasters strike.

This is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters.

The SBA serves as the Federal disaster bank in the wake of disasters, offering home disaster loans, business physical disaster loans, and economic injury disaster loans.

During disaster response and recovery, the Corps of Engineers conducts power generation, provides ice and potable water, emergency repair to buildings, conducts damage assessments, levee repairs, and provides sandbags and debris clearance.