“City administrator” means the city administrator of the city of North Bend, or such other person designated by the city administrator or the city council to serve in that capacity.

“Disaster” means an actual or potential emergency that exceeds the capacity of either local government or the emergency services system to effectively respond and that requires immediate action to protect life and property.

“Disaster response” means a response by organizational units of local government exceeding mutual aid directed toward any emergency to mitigate the effects of the emergency upon the public welfare. The effects of the emergency, either actual or potential, must be of such magnitude that available resources must be directed to the response effort.

“Emergency” means any human-caused or natural event or circumstance causing or threatening to cause loss of life, injury to person or property, human suffering or financial loss, and includes, but is not limited to, fire, explosion, flood, severe weather, drought, earthquake, volcanic activity, spills or releases of oil or hazardous material, contamination, utility or transportation emergencies, disease, blight, infestation, crisis influx of migrants unmanageable by the county, civil disturbance, terrorism, riot, sabotage, war or the interruption of essential public services.

“Emergency operations plan” means the plan that provides for the effective mobilization of all the resources of this city, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting an emergency, state of emergency, or state of war emergency, and shall provide for the organization, powers and duties, services, and staff of the emergency management program. The city council shall adopt the emergency operations plan by resolution and may from time to time amend the plan to reflect changes in federal or state law and changing emergency management concepts or lessons learned in exercises or real events.

Emergency Program Manager. The city administrator and the fire chief shall co-manage and administer the emergency management program for the city of North Bend.

“Emergency response” means prompt action directed at safeguarding the public’s welfare through procedures designed to minimize danger to life, health, property loss, or related impacts. The level of response is a function of the severity of the emergency, the impact or potential impact upon persons or property, and the ability of government to respond given limitations of budget, personnel, and equipment.

“Incident command system (ICS)” is an all-risk system enabling emergency organizations to function in a multi-agency environment using standardized organization, terminology, procedures, and communications. It provides a generic organizational structure with the five functional areas of command, operations, planning, logistics and finance.

“Mutual aid” is a concept that allows resource sharing between two or more response organizations that are separately funded and whose jurisdictional areas do not overlap. Use of the resources is based upon written operational agreements (mutual aid agreements) between two or more response organizations through which resources are shared and the functions of command and control have been agreed upon beforehand. (Ord. 2073 § 1 (Exh. A), 2024; Ord. 1899 § 3, 2002)