Lake City Emergency Management

City emergency manager reminds public about Snow Emergency rules

Dec 4, 2024

With winter coming we remind people that a Snow Emergency is declared in Lake City when the city street crew determines there have been at least four inches of snow accumulation. It remains in effect until the streets are plowed curb to curb. Fines for being parked on city streets during an...

Flooded homeowners asked to contact city, county

May 10, 2023

If your home was flooded by the Mississippi River flooding in April, please contact the Lake City Emergency Management at 651-345-3344 or email to jyorde@lakecitypd.org. If you live in Wabasha County and not in city limits, please contact Brenda Tomlinson at Wabasha County Emergency Management at...

Free CodeRED service provides snow emergency notifications

Nov 16, 2022

The accumulation of snow in the Lake City area earlier this week was a grim reminder that winter is on its way. And winter usually means snow—sometimes a lot of it. A snow emergency is declared after a snowfall of more than four inches. Plowing typically starts on the snow emergency routes first,...

Mayor: When tornado hit, city responded

Oct 2, 2019

Last Tuesday night our town experienced a tornado that traveled a destructive path through the center of our community. To those that suffered property damage it was a terrible outcome and we are all thankful that our community avoided bodily injuries. Later in the week I made the rounds to a...

Lake City offers emergency messaging service

May 29, 2019

Lake City Emergency Management is asking citizens to make sure they have signed up for public safety and other time-sensitive messages from the city. The CodeRED system provides Wabasha County and Lake City officials the ability to quickly deliver messages to targeted areas or the entire city and...

Brown receives AMEM advocate award

Sep 27, 2017

Association of Minnesota Emergency Managers (AMEM) President Christopher Muller announced at the annual awards banquet that Thomas Brown was awarded the 2017 Emergency Management Advocate AwardAMEM’s Emergency Management Advocate Award is presented for exceptional support of emergency management by...

Ground-breaking for Public Safety Building

Oct 13, 2016

Representatives of the City Council, Public Safety Board, Ambulance Commission, Police Department, Ambulance Service and other city staff took part in a ground-breaking ceremony Thursday for the new Pubic Safety Building on North 10th Street. The structure will begin taking shape quickly....

Work to start soon on new public safety building

Aug 24, 2016

The Lake City Police Department and Ambulance Service could move into their new building as soon as next February or March, Police Chief Cory Kubista said. He said contractors met Friday to work out scheduling details. The City Council awarded bids for the new building at its Aug. 15 meeting....

Bids approved for new Lake City public safety building

Aug 17, 2016

Bids on a new public safety building were approved by the City Council Monday night on a 4-3 vote. Mayor Joel Beckman joined council Members Mark Spence, Mary Lou Waltman and Randy Klipfel in approving the bids. Council members Russell Boe, Andru Peters and Greg Schreck voted against. The bids came...

City Council OKs plan for new Lake City public safety building

Jul 14, 2016

Construction could begin in September on a new city public safety building on North 10th Street. The City Council on Monday night approved final drawings for the 16,000 square foot building. The building will become the new home for the city’s police department, ambulance service and emergency...