(a) In view of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquakes or other natural or human-made causes, and in order to ensure that preparations of the town will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and, generally, to provide for the defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the town, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:
(1) To create an Office of Emergency Services in the town;
(2) To confer upon the officials of the town the emergency powers provided herein; and
(3) To provide for the rendering of emergency services within the town and to cooperate with other governmental agencies with respect to carrying out the emergency service functions.
(b) It is further declared to be the purpose of this article and the policy of the town that all emergency services functions of the town be coordinated to the maximum extent with the comparable functions of the county, state and federal governments, including the various departments and agencies thereof, as well as with other states and localities and with private agencies of every type, so that the most effective preparation and use may be made of the county, state and nation’s manpower, resources and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.