The City of Yelm maintains an updated Emergency Disaster Plan designed to protect lives and property and to carry out preparedness and mitigation activities, respond to natural and man-made emergencies and disasters, and coordinate the recovery efforts for such events.
Disasters and emergencies have occured in Yelm and will likely occur again in the future. Through the development of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis it has been determined that the City of Yelm is vulnerable to numerous technological and natural hazards. These hazards include: wind, rain and snowstorms, earthquake, flood, landslide, common and private carrier accident, search and rescue emergencies, civil disturbance, terrorist activity, conventional and nuclear war, explosion, structural collapse, hazardous material incident, major fire, energy and utility system failure.
The Goals of Yelm's Emergency Disaster Plan are:
KGY (1240 AM/96.9 FM) is the local emergency broadcast station for information and instructions.