Focus of Winter Storm Impacts Now on Recovery; Emergency Operations Center in Monterey County Demobilizes

While recovery and emergency repairs from the recent Winter Storms continues, the need for an active

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) by the County of Monterey and partner agencies is no

longer needed. For that reason, the County of Monterey’s EOC is now demobilized.

The Center was active for 40 days and was the heart of emergency operations during the storms,

coordinating emergency and community response with partner agencies at the local, state, and

federal level as well as cities, law enforcement, and non-profit organizations. The first weather

emergency began on December 26, 2022 and the EOC was activated shortly after.

During the most severe impacts of the storms, the Emergency Operations Center had more than

200 people working on disaster response at its physical location at the Department of Emergency

Management office in Salinas as well as hundreds of people in the field as serving as Disaster

Works doing shelter operations, evacuations, flood fighting, road surveillance and clean up just

to name a few critical tasks.

A huge thank you to the dozens of workers, volunteers and partner agencies who worked around

the clock to safeguard communities throughout Monterey County.

The County’s Department of Emergency Management will give an update on the work of the

EOC to the Board of Supervisors on March 7, 2023. The community is invited to listen and

participate. The winter weather is not over, and the County of Monterey remains prepared and

ready to remobilize emergency efforts should another crisis arise.

For residents impacted by this crisis, help is still available. The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center

is open at 1441 Schilling Place in Salinas. The Department of Emergency Management’s Virtual

Local Assistance Center, which offers extensive information and sources for recovery and

eligibility for economic assistance, is always open at

https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/winterstormsVirtualLAC.

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