PERSON: Craig Fugate

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Chief Emergency Management Officer & Strategic Executive Advisor

William Craig Fugate (born May 14, 1959) is the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As director for the Florida Emergency Management Division, he oversaw the “Big 4 of ‘04” and as the administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he organized recovery efforts for a record of 80-seven disasters in 2011.

Fugate was born at Jacksonville Naval Air Station to William Roland, a senior chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, and Carol Charlotte Fugate. In 1970 at the age of 11 he lost his mother, and then his father in 1974 at the age of 16. He attended high school at Santa Fe High School and trained as a volunteer firefighter, then attended fire college and paramedic school at Santa Fe College, began a job as an emergency paramedic and eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant with Alachua County Fire Rescue.

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