When it comes to emergency preparedness, Linn county residents would do well to heed the Boy Scout motto: “Be Prepared!” says Jim Howell, emergency management coordinator for the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
Howell, in his eighth year in the post, says his interest in emergency management began as a cadet with the civil air patrol in 1957.
“Sheriff Burright is actually the county’s emergency program coordinator and I am his emergency management deputy,” Howell said.