Ann Marie Mason and Ashley Rivers from Warren County Office of Emergency Services recently completed 120 hours of advanced instruction to graduate from the National Emergency Management Basic Academy.
The 120-hour course offered over three months this spring through New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services covers Foundations of Emergency Management, Science of Disaster, Planning Emergency Operations, Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program and Public Information basics.
Nine emergency management professionals from around New York completed the training, offered Warren County Sheriff's Office. Peter Cichetti, acting director of the State Office of Emergency Management at DHSES, presented the certificates.
Mason, Director of Warren County Office of Emergency Services, said the training she and Rivers received will help her agency's ability to plan for emergencies, and respond when they occur.
"The instructors gave us tools to strengthen what we do every day," she explained