EMERGENCY MANAGER
Mr. Anthony Dimas
Mr. Anthony Dimas formally took office 2-8-09 as the director of Emergency Management. Mr Dimas has a degree in criminal justice and has worked as a sheriffs officer, dispatcher, and most recently within the DWI Office also dealing with the drug and alcohol crisis center.
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Past Emergency Manager
Mr. Mark Diaz was the McKinley County Emergency Manager and has been on the job since 2003 until his retirement in December 2008. 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 did 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 knowledge of EMS systems. To add to his past duties, at times Mr. Diaz was placed as the Acting Director of Fire/EMS of McKinley County.
Written by Ken Hoffman, EMSC