Provides relief to victims of a disaster. Helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

Serves as a secondary source to disaster relief efforts; disaster defined as weather related issues such as floods, fire and extreme temperature. Secondary services available following the efforts of local emergency management agencies and American Red Cross. Funding, donated goods and services available to assist in an individual or household's recovery efforts if all other assistance has been exhausted.

The Bureau of Fire serves the City of Williamsport, the county seat for Lycoming County. One of its divisions is Operations and Prevention. Its services include, but are not limited to: fire suppression, vehicle rescue, water rescue, technical rescue, emergency medical quick response, fire inspections, fire investigations, and emergency management administration. In 2004 the Bureau was given the responsibility of administering emergency management for the City. The Bureau is responsible for the implementation of the National Incident Management System for the City, maintaining the City emergency operations plan, two emergency operations centers, six early warning sirens, and the training of all emergency operations center personnel.