Mark Ghilarducci is stepping down as director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services after years of phones calls in the middle of the night, missed birthdays and vacations cut short.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, catastrophic wildfires, earthquakes, mass shootings and other devastating crises over the last decade,as they tried their best to update and assuage the fears of an anxious, disaster-laden state.Newsom
For those who may be unfamiliar with Ghilarducci, he’s spent nearly 40 years in emergency management and public safety, working in some capacity for six California governors going back to. He served in the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Clinton administration, and led the federal search and rescue operations after the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Imagine the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach being shut down or California’s aging, half-century-old aqueducts and natural gas and petroleum pipelines and interstate railways snaking through Cajon Pass damaged or destroyed. The director emphasized, however, Californians must do what they can to prepare. Have a family plan in place so everyone knows where to meet if separated during a disaster. Know the best evacuation routes. Have adequate food, water and medical supplies to last for several days, and an emergency power supply.
All the while, California face a recalcitrant Trump administration, which seemed intent on letting states find their own way. “Because of the diversity of California, it does not allow for one size fits all. We’ve got underserved communities, we’ve got affluent communities, we’ve got red counties and blue counties,” he said. “We didn’t have time to sit and think and talk about it for a week or two weeks or a month.... We were all living in this facility, which was locked down and super-sterilized, making these very, very critical decisions.
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