{"id":40244,"date":"2022-09-15T04:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=40244"},"modified":"2022-09-24T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:00:15","slug":"graham-to-be-new-ema-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/graham-to-be-new-ema-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham To Be New EMA Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_40245\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40245\" data-attachment-id=\"40245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/graham-to-be-new-ema-director\/muldruagh-police-chief\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?fit=2166%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2166,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Muldruagh Police Chief&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1546857617&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.25&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muldruagh Police Chief&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Muldruagh Police Chief\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Muldruagh Police Chief&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?fit=867%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham.jpg?resize=254%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?resize=867%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 867w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C908&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?resize=1300%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?resize=1733%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1733w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muldruagh Police Chief<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nAn end of a chapter in Meade County emergency services will happen at the end of October.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the regular meeting of Meade County Fiscal Court Tuesday (9\/13) night, Judge Executive Leslie Stith informed magistrates that Emergency Management Director Ron Dodson had submitted his resignation effective on October 31, 2022. Dodson has been the local Emergency Management Director for the past 33 years and has served Meade County in many functions through the years.<\/p>\n<p>Stith asked for Fiscal Court to appoint Jason Graham as part time interim Emergency Management Director until December 31, 2022, then transition to full time Director on January 1, 2023. Graham is currently the Muldraugh Chief of Police and has 26 years of law enforcement experience previously with the Meade County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. <\/p>\n<p>Fiscal Court also approved the appointments of current Deputy EMA Director Angel Gates and Julien Borchert as an assistant. Judge Executive Stith stated that Meade County owes great debt of gratitude to Ron Dodson for his dedication to citizens of Meade County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An end of a chapter in Meade County emergency services will happen at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":40245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chief-Jason-Graham-scaled.jpg?fit=2166%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-at6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:43:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40246,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions\/40246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}