Emergency Management -- changes and an award

Each year at the Cook County Emergency Services Conference, the emergency services community honors some of its members. This year a special award was presented, the Career Achievement Award, which was given to Cook County’s former Emergency Management Director, Nancy Koss.

Koss now lives in Hermantown, but was invited to attend this year’s conference to accept the award, which was given in recognition of her 17 years as emergency management director.

After the current Emergency Management Director Valerie Marasco bestowed the honor, Koss expressed appreciation for the award and said she was pleased to see that the county has continued the conference and some of the other measures initiated during her tenure. She said, “I think you are headed in the right direction.”

After the conference, Koss agreed to sit down with WTIP’s Rhonda Silence to talk a little bit about emergency services and the changes she has seen.

For more information about the conference, or to learn how you could help our local emergency services, call Director Valerie Marasco at Cook County Emergency Management at 218-387-3059.

Pictured: Three of Cook County's Emergency Management Directors, (L-R) Valerie Mararsco, former director Jim Wiinanen, and former director Nancy Koss. Photo by Rhonda Silence