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Office of Emergency Management

The Bayonne Office of Emergency Management (O.E.M.) is organized under Chapter 2-28 of the Code of the City of Bayonne pursuant to New Jersey State Statute.

The mission of Bayonne O.E.M. is to prepare for and activate operations during the occurrence of disasters and emergencies of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake or other natural causes.

Additionally, to ensure the preparations of this City will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of this City.

Edoardo "Junior" Ferrante was appointed by Mayor James M. Davis as Coordinator of the Office of Emergency Management on March 4, 2016.