After voting to accept Hood’s resignation, the Baldwin County Commission appointed Assistant EMA Director, Tom Tyler as the interim director while a search is conducted for a new one.
Tyler has served in the Assistant role for the last year and has a military and emergency management background. He feels his team is ready for any challenges this hurricane season may throw our way.
“I’d first say, we just finished a hurricane exercise in which we validated our processes. We came away from that very confident in our abilities to respond,” Tyler said. “Second thing I’d say is we have a very well-established team. All of us have been here over one year. Many of us, quite many more than that and we have an awful lot of experience in the room in that we have several who have been through several disasters.
Commissioner Gruber said while Hood’s resignation is disappointing, the commission is confident in the new EMA leadership and will stand behind it. “Anything that Tom or any of his staff thinks we need to do, we’re going to do it, you know,” Gruber reassured. “It’s not…this could have been the same thing if we could have had an accident. Someone…we’d have lost somebody. You’ve got to do the same thing. You’ve just got to continue moving forward.”
Former EMA Director Hood told Fox 10 News he eft for the reasons stated in his resignation letter. As to why he eft so suddenly, Hood said he wanted to remove himself qui9ckey so the EMA team could move forward without distraction.Copyright 2023 WALA. All rights reserved.
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