The Westfield Emergency Management Agency practices Emergency Management, which is different from regular daily emergency response that might be handled by the Police or Fire Departments.
The process of Emergency Management is to identify and possibly avoid emergency events, prepare for events should they happen, to assist in the response and recovery to an event. Local Emergency Management agencies often work in conjunction with state or federal agencies.
As an example, Westfield Emergency Management would not be the ones to rescue people trapped by flood waters but would rather help organize, deploy and support those rescuers.