MONROE COUNTY’S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY TO WORK FOR STATE’S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR HURRICANE MICHAEL

MONROE COUNTY, FL Monroe County’s Emergency Management Director Marty Senterfitt and Monroe County Assistant County Attorney Cynthia Hall are traveling to the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee to provide support for Hurricane Michael.

Senterfitt said he will be standing by to assist the other County Emergency Management Directors and Hall will be working in the state’s Logistics Section.

“I don’t know what my role will be yet,” Senterfitt said. “It will depend where the storm hits and who needs what. The state will decide where to send us.”

Senterfitt said that Monroe County offered to send help and the state accepted.

“Just as the state supported us during Hurricane Irma, we are paying it forward and supporting them now,” Senterfitt said. “It also is incredible experience for Cynthia to see the inter-workings of the state logistics section. It will make her much more prepared when we have a storm.”

During Irma, Hall began work in Monroe County’s EOC in the planning section and because of her knowledge of contracts was switched to logistics.

Senterfitt said it is invaluable for Monroe County employees to get as

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