Emergency Management Consulting

Emergency Management Planning

Plans your people will actually use when it counts.

Emergency management leadership and planning expertise that guides your organization from hazard identification and risk assessment to a comprehensive, exercisable emergency management plan.

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A plan is only as good as its first activation.

Many emergency operations plans are written to satisfy a grant requirement, then sit on a shelf. They are too long to use during an activation, out of date within a year, and disconnected from the staff, resources, and partners that would actually respond. When a plan has never been exercised, the first real test is the incident.

High Street writes plans the way an emergency operations center works. We start with the people who will execute the plan, rank the hazards that matter to your jurisdiction, and organize every annex around checklists, roles, and decision points responders can find under pressure. Every plan we write is built to be exercised, and we can design the tabletop that tests it.

What we deliver

Emergency operations plans

Base plans and hazard-specific annexes organized for activation, with roles, checklists, and contact information where responders need them.

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Risk assessment

Structured hazard identification and risk assessment that ranks the threats to your jurisdiction and ties each to the capabilities and resources it demands.

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Continuity planning

Continuity of operations and continuity of government plans that keep essential functions running when facilities, staff, or systems are lost.

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Plan reviews and updates

Gap analyses, compliance reviews, and maintenance cycles that keep existing plans current, including school and family reunification plans.

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Fairfax County, Virginia

A county shelter plan, tested at full scale.

Fairfax County asked High Street to design, conduct, and evaluate a full-scale exercise of its emergency shelter operations, including accommodations for people with access and functional needs.

Fairfax County staff briefed before a full-scale shelter exercise

Who you'll work with

Zach Becker

Zach Becker

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Barrett Alexander

Barrett Alexander

Principal, Preparedness and Workforce Development

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