EMERGENCY MANAGER
MR. MARK DIAZ
Mr. Mark Diaz is the McKinley County Emergency Manager and has been on the job since 2003. Mr. Diaz comes from a varied background within McKinley County for the previous 15 years before his appointment as Emergency Manager to include many years of Law Enforcement.
Since his inception as the Emergency Manager, he has organized his office into a position in where he and his office actively participates with emergencies, obtains essential equipment through grants, and has made the Office of Emergency Management an actual agency.
Mark has done what no other person in McKinley County in past has done; actually developed the position into a bona fide response entity to control and mitigate large scale emergencies, developed many large scale grants and training seminars to prepare for mitigation that benefited almost every agency within McKinley County and the City of Gallup.
In October 2006, Mr. Mark Diaz received his Certification in Emergency Management which is difficult to obtain. He is also a IFSTA certified Firefighter I, and has kowledge of EMS systems.
To add to his duties, at times Mr. Diaz is placed as the Acting Director of Fire/EMS of McKinley County.
Written by Ken Hoffman, EMSC