OFFICE OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
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.
The Office of Emergency Management was taken out from under the Fire Departments Command and was established as it's own department by then County Manager Tom Trujillo on February 8th, 2009.
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Past Emergency Manager's
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, obtained essential Fire, EMS and Police 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 and had the EMS Coordinator, Mr. Kenneth Hoffman assist him in Emergency Management and with events as needed.
Upon Mr. Diaz's departure, Mr. Kenneth Hoffman attended to Emergency Management Duties from November 12th 2008 until February 8th 2009 as additional duties to include 3 successful tabletop exercises and one event (the Grand Opening of the Casino with dignitaries such as the President of Navajo Nation, and the Governor of N.M. and several Congress persons) and until Mr. Dimas took his post on February 8th. Then Mr. Hoffman returned to EMS Coordinator - Fire duties only as the Office of Emergency Management was taken out of the Fire Service and placed under the County Attorney's Office per the direction of the County Manager..