Mr. Jason T. Llewelyn is the Director of Carbon County Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Jason entered the emergency management field in 2005. Jason began his career in emergency response as a volunteer Firefighter/ EMT for the Helper City Fire Department in 1999. His passion for emergency response quickly grew and led him to begin his journey into the field that he loves today.

Prior to becoming the Emergency Services Director for Carbon County, Jason was employed at the College of Eastern Utah for 15 years where he was the Information Technology Director. Jason had several positions at CEU. Beginning in 1990 after completing a degree in computer science, he was tasked with the Design, Creation and Installation of a closed circuit television network (CEU-NET) in conjunction with the University of Utah’s EdNet system. CEU still uses this system today between its Price and San Juan campuses and all four county school districts in eastern Utah (Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan). This system uses production grade television equipment to deliver college courses to students in remote areas all over Utah. Jason taught several courses for CEU while in his tenure there that included broadcast production and emergency medical technician classes.

Jason is responsible for all Homeland Security, Fire Department, Disaster response and Emergency Planning, Training, and Exercising in Carbon County. He is also the counties NIMS (national incident management system) coordinator. He has identified over a dozen planning & training initiatives in the county and has accomplished several of those revisions to date. While at his current position, Jason created the Carbon County Sheriff’s ARIES/RACES Communications Team as an auxiliary to the Sheriff’s Office. He has also been instrumental in restructuring and managing the Carbon County Hazardous Materials Response Task Force and is involved in the South Eastern Utah Regional Hazmat Team training, planning and response effort. He is co-chair of the South Eastern Regional Homeland Security Coalition. He also chairs the Carbon County Homeland Security and LEPC Committees. One of Jason’s most notable accomplishments was to secure and coordinate the 7-eastern counties in  Utah, Ute Nation and Navajo Nation Tribes into a telecommunications consortium that was successful in obtaining a $1.4 million dollar PSIC (public safety interoperable communications) grant and a $2.1 million dollar CIB (community impact board) grant. These grants are to improve public safety communications for the remote and desolate eastern-half of the state of Utah. In all, over the last 5 years Mr. Llewelyn has brought in over $4.5 million dollars in grants and over $1 million in restitution back into Carbon County since taking the helm.

Jason is the past chair of the State of Utah Regional Homeland Security Chairs Committee (URCC) and also past chair the Training and Exercise Committee.  He has focused on local operations and field-management of resources during his career at the County. This includes the development and delivery of courses such as NIMS, Incident Management, Unified Command, Terrorism awareness and response, Hazardous Materials awareness and response, IEMC Special Events and other fire and ems training for local field and EOC responders.

Mr. Llewelyn also serves in many other capacities for Carbon County. He is the Director for the Carbon County Sheriff’s Hazardous Materials Team and served for the last 5 years in this position. Jason also serves on the Castleview Hospital emergency planning and advisory committee and the South Eastern Utah Medical Reserve Corp as the County representative.  Jason is an adjunct instructor for the State Emergency Management Institute, Hazardous Materials Institute, as well as the State Bureau of EMS and State Fire and Rescue Academy. He has served on several curriculum development committees for FEMA and has instructed on a national level for FEMA’s state and local emergency management and fire response programs. He has assisted in the development and updating of several Fire Academy courses. He is currently a Utah-POST Certified Police Officer, HazMat Technician/Specialist, Firefighter-II, and EMT Intermediate-Advanced, SWAT team member, Dive Team member and Master Scuba Diver. Jason is also an instructor in several of the above certifications for the State of Utah and Carbon County.