On January 11, 2021, Peter T. Gaynor was signated as the Actg Secretary of Homeland Secury. Mr. Gaynor was officially nfirmed by the U.S. Senate to be FEMA Admistrator on January 14, 2020. Prevly, he served as the Senate-nfirmed Deputy FEMA Admistrator.
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PETER T. GAYNOR
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Gaynor was signated as the Actg Secretary of Homeland Secury.
Gaynor was officially nfirmed by the U. Gaynor led FEMA’s rponse to over 300 printially clared emergenci and major disasters.
PETE GAYNOR BE FEMA ADMISTRATOR
WASHINGTON – Today, Actg Department of Homeland Secury Secretary Chad Wolf swore Peter T. Gaynor as FEMA’s Admistrator. * peter gaynor *
Gaynor oversaw the agency’s close llaboratn wh feral, state, lol, tribal and terrorial partners, makg possible to serve lns of Amerins their time of need through lolly executed, state managed and ferally supported disaster the historic year of 2020, Mr.
Gaynor oversaw FEMA’s first ever operatnal rponse to a natnwi panmic while simultaneoly rpondg to a rerd amount of disasters. Gaynor directed FEMA’s operatnal ordatn for the whole-of-Government rponse to COVID-19. Gaynor led the feral rponse to the most active Atlantic hurrine season history, wh a rerd of 30 named storms.
Gaynor also directed the rponse to a historic Wt Coast wildfire season, rultg 78 Fire Management Assistance Grant claratns to assist ernments fightg Admistrator, Mr.
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Gaynor oversaw FEMA’s award of the agency’s largt astcture project grants history to assist wh Puerto Ri’s ongog revery om hurrin Irma and has more than 13 years of experience emergency management.
Prr to g to FEMA, Gaynor served as the Director of Rho Island’s Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA) 2015. Gaynor oversaw rponse and revery efforts to blizzards, floods, tropil storms and public health emergenci. Addnally, he served as a Commissner and a member for the Program Review Commtee for the Emergency Management Accredatn Program (EMAP), which fosters excellence and acuntabily emergency management and homeland secury programs across the March 2008 to December 2014, Gaynor served as the Director of the Province Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) and Office of Homeland Secury, where he was the only Certified Emergency Manager assigned as a municipal emergency manager Rho Island.
He was rponsible for ensurg the planng and operatns of the agency, ordatg muny exercise programs, managg the Emergency Operatns Center (EOC), and advisg the Mayor of the Cy of Province on lol ernment emergency his tenure at RIEMA and PEMA, Gaynor oversaw multiple rponse and revery operatns and managed numero ferally clared Pete Gaynor’s learship, 2010, PEMA beme the first municipaly the Uned Stat to receive accredatn om EMAP. In 2017, Rho Island beme the 36th state to be EMAP-accreded, makg Gaynor the first emergency management director award EMAP accredatn at the lol and state levels. In January 2018, unr Gaynor’s directn, Rho Island was the first state signated as StormReady by the Natnal Weather was award the Internatnal Associatn of Emergency Managers USA & Global Partners Preparedns Award for Operatn SMART EXIT, a planned full-sle evacuatn of several high-rise mercial buildgs Downtown Province, to his experience as an emergency manager, Gaynor served for 26 years as an enlisted Mare and Infantry Officer the Uned Stat Mare Corps.