Michael Loewinger
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1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sure, I c I guess anyone that has never been to college wish they had gone, but when I grew up
I was working.
father
He was
Suffice to say, Witt's humble beginnings did not hold him back.
And when he came to FEMA in nineteen ninety three, he became the first leader in the agency's fourteen year history with any professional experience managing domestic disasters.
Witt comes in and that's when he totally started turning everything around.
How did he do that?
Well a lot of it was really common sense.
He knew there were all kinds of problems internal to FEMA.
So he sends a memo to all
action, open door policy.
So all of a sudden it's
He's getting all these employees coming in and giving him an earful of all the problems in the agency.
He collected all these ideas and got to work reorganizing the agency for what he called an all hazards approach to emergency response.
Okay, if the FEMA employees might be needed in a disaster,
What kind of jobs are they gonna have to do?
Let's train people for those jobs.
He also made rosters of who would be on duty when during the disaster.
And he said, Okay, we're gonna divide the employees here like into three teams the red team, the white team and the blue team.
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