“Hurricane Ian is and will continue to be a very dangerous and life-threatening storm, and this is going to be for the days ahead,” Criswell said at a news conference Wednesday morning.įEMA has search and rescue coordination teams staged in Miami and 128,000 gallons of fuel ready for rapid deployment, and the agency has moved in a variety of generators of all sizes and types to restore power to critical infrastructure and medical facilities, Criswell said.Ĭoordinating the federal response to Ian’s wrath will be among the toughest assignments of Criswell’s career.Īs the head of FEMA during the Biden administration, she’s created initiatives to support the US health care system in the age of Covid and, more recently, was tasked with aiding the federal response to the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. The woman in charge of leading the federal disaster response to Hurricane Ian is drawing upon years of experience coordinating emergency efforts on Covid-19, wildfires, flooding and other crises.ĭeanne Bennett Criswell, who has been leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency since April 2021 as its first female administrator, has been warning of the looming dangers of Ian since it began pummeling Florida.
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