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Durant Oklahoma
Emergency Management

The Durant Emergency Management Department works to mitigate, plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from the various emergencies and disasters that affect our City. We utilize an all-hazards approach, focusing on the various emergency functions that need performed in time of trouble. Our work includes:
  • Identification and analysis of the hazards in our City
  • Work to eliminate the hazards or lessen their effects
  • Development of Emergency Operations Plans that guide our overall citywide response to emergencies that occur
  • Identification of assets and resources that can be used in the mitigation, response, and recovery efforts
  • Rapid response to the disaster needs of our community, in an attempt to quickly return our lives to normal

​Emergency Operations Plan and Hazard Mitigation Plan
The City maintains two emergency planning documents.  The Hazard Mitigation Plan identifies various natural hazards that could impact Durant and/or the Durant Public Schools, and potential means to eliminate the hazard or reduce its potential effects. The Emergency Operations Plan is a guide to how the City of Durant conducts all-hazards emergency response, describing specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters.

Sign up for Emergency Notifications Here

Click the Genasys Mass Notification SIGN UP to register for this  notification service. The City of Durant is providing this free service for it's citizens and will be able to send important messages in the public interest. Your information will not be shared and will only be used for contact via City of Durant Genasys Mass Notification system. Please note: phone alerts will show up as: 580-634-9444, Email alerts will be from: City of Durant, OK Alerts <[email protected]>, and Text/SMS message will show up from: Sender ID 65513. 
After a disaster, our emergency teams use this list to check on families that have a storm shelter. They check to ensure that the family is able to get out of the shelter and not stuck underneath debris. Register your shelter with us for our emergency teams to check on you after a storm.
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The City of Durant does not have "public storm shelters."

​The following information is referenced from the "Public Storm Shelter Position Statement" as seen in the link below.

The decision to not identify public storm shelters is not an easy one to make, but the overwhelming contradicting information is more than can be ignored. The rationale behind the decisions to not designate public buildings as storm shelters is outlined in the points below: 
  1. Travel to a Shelter
  2. Shelter Capacity
  3. Shelter Availability
  4. Shelter Construction
  5. Shelter Rules, Risks and Liabilities

The Better Solution is Personal Pre-planning for you and your family.

Personal preparedness limits risk and anxiety. The past shows that having a personal plan and staying informed (or awareness) are the two critical elements in staying safe during a severe weather event. 
  1. Develop a plan
  2. Awareness

The City of Moore Oklahoma that has been devastated by two F5 and two F4 tornadoes since 1991 does not have any "community" shelters as referenced in the file below. 
City of Moore Community Shelters
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File Type: docx
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Public Storm Shelter Position Statement
File Size: 727 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
Link: Public Tornado Shelters Can Do More Harm than Good
Durant Regional Emergency Operations Center
5861 Cessna Dr.
Durant, OK 74701
(580)924-3661