Kalamazoo County Office of Emergency Management

Lieutenant Paul R. Baker

Director

Lt. Baker is the Director of Emergency Management with the County of Kalamazoo and is a Lieutenant with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office.

Paul serves as the Director of Emergency Management for Michigan’s 9th largest county -- Kalamazoo. In addition to 23 years of service in Law Enforcement, has served for 20 years in the fire service and the last 10 years as a paid-on-call Fire Chief, which he retired from on May 31, 2005.

Paul has been a member since 2001 and was appointed Treasurer of the Michigan Emergency Management Association (MEMA) in 2002, and holds leadership positions on the county’s Hazardous Materials Team, Michigan’s 5th District Medical Coalition, Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee, Disaster Committee, Local Emergency Planning Committee as well as several other sub-committees and serves on the states Emergency Management Focus Group for Regionalization.

As Director, Paul is responsible for the county Emergency Operations Center readiness / operations, Serves on the EOC Staff as the Operations Chief during events, Coordinates all Homeland Security and other grants. As a Lieutenant he is the Division Commander and manages the day-to-day operations and in addition to himself he has three full-time staff, one part-time clerical, several office/project volunteers and several hundred plus volunteers.

Also is a certified Fire Service and Terrorism Instructor, Certified Law Enforcement Officer, Licensed Medical First Responder, Certified Firefighter level 2 and Fire Officer level 3 and most recently Certified in Homeland Security Level III. Paul has received recognition from Law Enforcement for Live Saving, Bravery and Everyday Hero from the Red Cross. Has also managed a Presidential disaster declaration.

Contact Paul at (269) 383-8712

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