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Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the Chemung County Office of Fire and Emergency Management has received accreditation through New York’s Local Emergency Management Accreditation Program. Chemung County joins 13 other emergency management organizations in receiving achieve accreditation. The county joins Albany, Broome, Erie, Livingston, Madison, Montgomery, Nassau, Oneida, Saratoga, Washington, and Wayne counties, as well as New York City, in this formal recognition
“It’s clear how critical local emergency management is for our state’s resilience as we continue to experience example after example of extreme weather, and Chemung County’s accreditation is a necessary step that all of our Counties should take,” said Governor Hochul…