PART 1 - Regional Disaster Services Director at The Salvation Army Patrick McGinn

Expert emergency manager, Patrick McGinn serves as the Regional Disaster Services Director at The Salvation Army for all of Northern California and Nevada. He talks about his response experiences and shares lessons learned on emergency training exercises. Patrick also served the elite National Incident Management Assistance Team (N-IMAT West) for FEMA with our host, John Scardena.Patrick is truly a well rounded emergency manager with both planning and operational experience. With his current role with The Salvation Army, he has developed axioms that push emergency managers to have a one-team, one-fight mentality. In this episode, we talked about how training pre-disaster impacted operations during Hurricane Harvey, a major event in both our host’s and Patrick’s career.