Virginia Department of Emergency Management

The Virginia Department of Emergency protects the lives and property of Virginia's citizens from emergencies and disasters by coordinating the state's emergency preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery efforts. VDEM works with local government, state and federal agencies, private companies and voluntary organizations to perform this mission. The opinions expressed by visitors on the Virginia Department of Emergency Management's (VDEM) LinkedIn page do not reflect the opinions of VDEM. Public comments are monitored by VDEM, which reserves the right to remove/delete public comments that are abusive, discriminatory, vulgar and/or threatening in nature to an individual or to the Department. VDEM reserves the right to block/ban anyone who is repeatedly abusive, discriminatory, vulgar and/or threatening in their postings. Solicitations of any form will be promptly removed from VDEM's LinkedIn page, as the Department is prohibited from the endorsement and/or promotion of any particular product, individual, political affiliation, etc.