South Central Kansas Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8 provides the mechanism for coordinated regional assistance to supplement local resources during a potential or actual response to public health and medical disasters in Kansas.
ESF-8 includes the following agencies:
- Animal Response
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
- Environmental Health
- Fatality Management
- Hospitals
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD)
To find out more information about each agency and what their roles and responsibilities are in a disaster, click on the corresponding page links located at the top menu of this page to bring you to their individual informational page.