Sammamish’s first emergency manager begins work today, marking a major milestone for the City in emergency planning.
Andrew Stevens comes from a similar position in California.
Sammamish’s first emergency manager begins work today, marking a major milestone for the City in emergency planning.
Andrew Stevens comes from a similar position in California.
Sammamish has hired its first emergency preparedness director.
Andrew Stevens, the emergency manager of Downey (CA), starts work April 17. He holds
Andrew Stevens, Sammamish’s first full-time emergency management director.
the same position in Downey (CA).
“I’m very pleased that we were able to attract and hire Andrew Stevens to the position of Emergency Manager,” Sammamish City Manager Lyman Howard wrote in an email to The Sammamish Comment..
The folks on the interview panel were impressed and delighted as well. I’ve also heard positive comments from the regional Emergency Management community, that we made a good choice. Andrew starts April 17th.”
The appointment comes nearly two years after The Comment revealed Sammamish was going skip a multi-state, multi-jurisdictional, Canadian-US earthquake disaster drill called Cascadia Rising. Sammamish scrambled to join after the revelation.