{"id":30733,"date":"2019-01-17T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=30733"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:16:31","slug":"murphy-named-new-director-for-chesco-emergency-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=30733","title":{"rendered":"Murphy named new director for Chesco Emergency Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8884\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mike-Murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8884\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8884\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mike-Murphy-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Murphy, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Chester County Commissioners today announce the appointment of Michael Murphy, Jr. as Director of the Department of Emergency Services. Murphy was formerly Platoon Leader for the County\u2019s 9-1-1 operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of Chester County residents is one of our top priorities and our Director of Emergency Services plays a pivotal role in ensuring that safety,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Michelle Kichline.\u00a0 \u201cWe are fortunate to have someone with Mike\u2019s experience and professionalism take on the directorship role.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Murphy replaces Robert Kagel, who served as director of the department for four years before his appointment as Chester County Administrator.\u00a0 John Haynes, Deputy Director of 9-1-1 Operations, has been serving as interim director since Kagel moved to the Commissioners\u2019 Office.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Kathi Cozzone said, \u201cChester County maintains an excellent emergency services record and we know that Mike will continue in the tradition of Bobby Kagel and the fine department team.\u00a0 Mike has the respect of the Department of Emergency Services staff as well as that of Chester County\u2019s first responder community.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Terence Farrell added, \u201cIn the event of an emergency, county residents deserve assurance that there is someone in leadership that can make the right decisions quickly.\u00a0 Mike has been with the County\u2019s Department of Emergency Services for 20 years and has a tremendous depth of knowledge of all areas of the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also thank John Haynes for stepping in and leading the department as interim director,\u201d added Commissioner Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>As Platoon Leader for Chester County\u2019s 9-1-1 Center, Mike has maintained national and state certifications in all 9-1-1 disciplines, and has led the County\u2019s team of telecommunicators using advanced technology to provide timely and accurate emergency assistance to citizens contacting the 9-1-1 Center.\u00a0 During his time served as Platoon Leader of 9-1-1 Operations, Mike has worked with every Department of Emergency Services division, all four emergency responder disciplines and their advisory councils, other County departments and state and federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime resident of Chester County, Murphy has served as Emergency Management Coordinator and Deputy EMC for Caln Township, and has served as a firefighter with the Thorndale Volunteer Fire Company since the age of 16.\u00a0 He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Safety Administration and a Masters in Organizational and Strategic Leadership, both from Neumann University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County Commissioners today announce the appointment of Michael Murphy, Jr. as Director of the Department of Emergency Services. Murphy was formerly Platoon Leader for the County\u2019s 9-1-1 operations. \u201cThe safety of Chester County residents is one of our top priorities and our Director of Emergency Services plays a pivotal role in ensuring that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1345,6518,3588,10901],"class_list":["post-30733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-emrgency-services","tag-featured","tag-jr","tag-michael-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30734,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions\/30734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}