Virginia Secretary of Public Safety Marla Decker should be commended for publicly recognizing Virginia emergency managers and other responders for their actions during a tornado event. See "Emergency management employees honored for tornado work". All too often emergency managers are overlooked when it comes to recognition but why is that? Perhaps it is because emergency managers typically operate out of site, in an Emergency Operations Center and not at the scene of an incident along side our uniformed brothers and sisters. However, emergency managers serve at the cross roads of an incident, especially for the big picture approach we have from our EOC, and the ability to link a major incident response to the vast pool of stakeholders usually needed to resolve a major emergency or disaster.
Our hats off to the Secretary Decker and Emergency Management Director Harris.
Steven Kuhr
Emergency Management Nexus
skuhr.blogspot.com
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