Cal OES Director Nancy Ward, far left, attends a news conference with L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and Gov. Gavin Newsom in February, as work began to remove debris from the Eaton fire in ...
Caroline Thomas Jacobs, a former senior manager at Apple and current department director, will lead the Office of Emergency Services.
In 1993, California legislators enacted a law to overhaul how the state manages disasters, including how emergency responders coordinated their work and how they disseminated lessons learned. One ...