New Deputy Director of Audrain County Emergency Management Agency

Audrain County has a new Deputy Director of the Emergency Management Agency.

Director Nicholas Tietsort says in a press release that the Agency applied for a grant to fund the position and it was fully funded.

Leonardo J. Paniagua is filling the new position and will bring knowledge from his fire and EMT experience to the job, according to Tietsort.

Audrain County’s Emergency Management Agency is funded in part by a grant from FEMA and dispersed through the State Emergency Management Agency.