Baltimoresun.com: Tornadoes, derecho meant a whirlwind start to job for MEMA Director Mallette

State’s top emergency official started role in May, will call for more outage information from utilities

One afternoon in early June, Ken Mallette was in Jacksonville driving from a funeral when he got a text message about severe storms striking Maryland. One of the storms’ 11 tornadoes had just ravaged nearby Fallston.

In his second week as executive director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, Mallette arrived in Fallston in a matter of minutes rather than head back to the state’s emergency command center in Reisterstown. He surveyed the damage and met with Harford County Executive David Craig.Read more about this Story here >>