Oct 1, 2026 · 30 min · 15 segments
Welcome to Behind the Spires! Join us in this Key City Conversation!Join us as we welcome Emma Williams, the City of Frederick’s new Emergency Manager, for an in‑depth conversation about preparedness…
It's almost one of those jobs where if you're doing your job...
No one knows about you.
Nobody knows.
Yeah, exactly.
Totally.
No one has to worry about anything if you're doing your job.
Yeah.
You alerted us to this fact, which is very exciting.
So why does that matter? And why should people think about preparedness now instead of waiting for the next disaster? Yes.
So National Preparedness Month, everyone, September, make sure you're like thinking about preparedness extra this month.
Well, we've all really been in that situation where like, you know, the snowstorms coming tomorrow and you go to the grocery store and there's no milk or bread or eggs because we all make French toast.
But we've all been in that situation and you feel really helpless and kind of panicked and then people start to panic.
But Preparedness Month is really a great opportunity to think through how you, your family, your business, your school, all of these different entities can be prepared because then you're empowered during an emergency.
You know what to do or you know you've at least thought about it and it makes you more resilient during the emergency.
We can't prevent every single emergency, but we can make it a little bit easier on ourselves, on our communities.
If we've thought through these things, if we've gotten prepared by either making a plan or creating a kit or just subscribing to all of our different alerts or something like that.
If you've done all of those things, you can really feel better ahead of that storm.
It's almost one of those jobs where if you're doing your job...
No one knows about you.
Nobody knows.
Yeah, exactly.
Totally.
No one has to worry about anything if you're doing your job.
Yeah.
You alerted us to this fact, which is very exciting.
So why does that matter? And why should people think about preparedness now instead of waiting for the next disaster? Yes.
So National Preparedness Month, everyone, September, make sure you're like thinking about preparedness extra this month.
Well, we've all really been in that situation where like, you know, the snowstorms coming tomorrow and you go to the grocery store and there's no milk or bread or eggs because we all make French toast.
But we've all been in that situation and you feel really helpless and kind of panicked and then people start to panic.
But Preparedness Month is really a great opportunity to think through how you, your family, your business, your school, all of these different entities can be prepared because then you're empowered during an emergency.
You know what to do or you know you've at least thought about it and it makes you more resilient during the emergency.
We can't prevent every single emergency, but we can make it a little bit easier on ourselves, on our communities.
If we've thought through these things, if we've gotten prepared by either making a plan or creating a kit or just subscribing to all of our different alerts or something like that.
If you've done all of those things, you can really feel better ahead of that storm.
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