Reposted from EMR-ISAC

For years, emergency managers have lacked an objective way to understand and analyze effects to their community when disaster strikes. The Community Lifeline Status System (CLSS) emerges as the solution, designed to operationalize real data for real-time decision making. It operationalizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Community Lifelines construct. It allows states, localities, tribal nations, and territories (SLTT) nationwide to assess and report on their own lifelines, which are, as FEMA describes, “the most fundamental services in the community that, when stabilized, enable all other aspects of society to function.” The CLSS is a no-cost project envisioned by DHS S&T and developed through a partnership between DHS S&T and G&H International Services, Inc. (G&H). The project began in 2022 and will be made available to all state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies in April 2025.

G&H International Services will host a webinar on Wednesday, March 26 at 12 p.m. EDT, Community Lifeline Status System Data & Decision Making Panel. The event will be moderated by the former director of Kentucky Emergency Management, and will feature a panel including the Secretary of Emergency Management for the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, the Chief of Emergency Management for Lee County, Florida, and the 311 Director and Innovation Officer for the town of Cary, North Carolina.

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