Butch Kinerney
Butch Kinerney
Butch Kinerney is Chief of Communications for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agencyand an expert in risk and crisis communications. He served as acting press secretary for FEMA in 2005-2006, rising to the position immediately following landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. During Katrina and the ongoing recovery in the Gulf Coast, he was quoted more than 30,000 times in the press, from Katrina's first landfall in Florida throughout the tumultuous fallout from FEMA's...
active region unusual
This is not a seismically active area. It's unusual for the region to be shaken that way.
breathe days gives options
This gives them another 60 days to breathe and see if there are other options available.
everybody mean
Is everybody a little tired? Sure. Does that mean we're not going to go when we get the call? No.