From the NY Times: Senior Leaders Are Leaving an Already-Depleted Disaster Agency

“More than a dozen of the senior leaders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including those with the most experience in leading disaster recovery, have either been fired or have resigned, thinning its management ranks weeks ahead of hurricane season.

The departures in the senior ranks are in addition to job cuts and resignations of about 1,000 of the agency’s roughly 17,000 employees.

Those changes represent a significant loss at an agency that was already struggling with personnel shortages as it tried to help communities recover from catastrophic storms and wildfires in western North Carolina and Los Angeles, among other missions.long with about 1,000 rank-and-file workers, FEMA is losing some of the managers most experienced in handling emergency efforts.”