Local EMA Directors

                                             Local Emergency Management Directors
By state law, each municipality is required to have an Emergency Management Director. These men and women coordinate local response and recovery when more than one department is responding to a community emergency. The Local Director does not replace or direct the police, fire, ambulance, or American Red Cross; he or she helps them work together in an emergency and acts as a liaison with the County Emergency Management Agency. You can contact your municipalities Local Director using the information listed below.

1. Student completes all required training courses as listed on curriculum guidance and requests recognition from County EMA Director.
2. County EMA Director reviews student checklist and verifies completion of level.
3. County EMA Director provides appropriate level of recognition, including certificate, and passes information onto the Maine Emergency Management County Directors Council (MEMCDC) professional development chairperson to be entered into the statewide database, managed by the council. 
4. Only when these benchmarks have been met would the student then be able to use the credentials of MBEM or MBEM-2. The MEMCDC is in the process of obtaining a service-mark for these credentials to ensure this.