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Kinerney worked as the Chief of Public Information for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency and as a Community Relations Officer for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. He was a newspaper and magazine reporter/writer/editor before beginning his government
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He is noted speaker on risk and crisis communications. In addition, Kinerney is a volunteer fire fighter with the Arcola-Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department in Loudoun County, VA, and counsels incarcerated youths through Epiphany Ministry.
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Prior to his appointment as acting press secretary, Kinerney was the public affairs liaison to FEMA's Mitigation Division, the National Flood Insurance Program and the
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in 2005. During Katrina and the ongoing recovery in the Gulf Coast, he was quoted more than 30,000 times in the press, from Katrina's first landfall in
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is Chief of Communications for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of the
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Before joining FEMA, Butch spent five years as a public affairs specialist at the
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for FEMA in 2005–2006, rising to the position immediately following landfall of
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JOURNAL, Robert BlockStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET (19 September 2005).
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throughout the tumultuous fallout from FEMA's response efforts in
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