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    District employee earns Civil Responder of the Year

    When Jessica Fischer started her career at the Army Corps of Engineers 11 years ago, she didn’t plan on becoming an emergency manager. She was set on a quiet career as a Project Engineer at the New York District. Then 2011 happened.
  • FEMA Region IX Administrator Nancy Award accepted a Certificate of Appreciation from Col. Wehr. He presented the certificate as a token of the Corps' regard and thanks for the FEMA team's collaboration with the Corps on floodplain management, mapping, risk analysis, and hazard mitigation, especially for California's Central Valley. He said FEMA Mitigation Division Director Sally Ziolkowski (left) and Kathy Schaefer (right), Chief of the Hazard Mitigation Assistance Branch and thier teams have been key to progress.

    USACE South Pacific Division and FEMA Region IX work to reduce flood risk

    South Pacific Division Commander Colonel Mike Wehr and FEMA Region IX Administrator Nancy Ward met Monday, August 8, to discuss progress and collaboration working with the states of California and Nevada to inventory levee conditions, and modernize floodplain maps and data bases.