yakima county emergency management

If Rimrock Dam was to fail after a big earthquake, downtown Yakima and the cities of Wapato and Toppenish would be under water. It would be a major emergency. The Yakima County Office of Emergency Management wants to be prepared just in case that ever does happen...

A military helicopter and a commercial jet crashed at the Yakima airport on Saturday. That was the scenario in a mock crash exercise at the Yakima airport on Saturday. The exercise involved more than a hundred actors and closed the airport for most of the day...