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DZTV: New King County Emergency Management Director Holds Forth

New director, new directions.

King County, Wash., is about the size of Rhode Island and has twice the population of that state. Seattle is the largest city in the county. 

I had the opportunity to conduct a Disaster Zone TV Interview with Brendan McCluskey, the relatively new director of Emergency Management for King County. To show you how much change has happened since I left there in 2007, almost 13 years ago: There have been six acting or permanent six directors and only one staff member from my era remains working there. Lots of transitions!

Basically a totally new organization blazing a path forward. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.