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Covid Almost Down, Hurricane Season Up: Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord Reassures: ‘We’re On the Ball’

June 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Jonathan Lord, who heads Flagler County Emergency Management, is barely done dealing with the covid emergency. Hurricane season is up next. He has a few words of advice, and some reassurances. (© FlaglerLive)

In briefing previewing the hurricane season, Jonathan Lord detailed how Flagler County, fresh from winding down its covid emergency, is ramping up preparations for hurricane or tropical storm emergencies and urging against complacency–or too much attention to statistical probabilities, which mean nothing if that one storm hits.

Kevin Guthrie, Flagler’s Former Emergency Manager, Will Take Over State Emergency Management

February 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Kevin Guthrie was Flagler County's emergency management chief from 2013 to early 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

Guthrie changed the emergency management culture in Flagler, transforming a static division that had been reined in by the county administration and hampered by checkered leadership into an energetic, forward-looking division. But the administration thwarted his broader plans.

‘Zero Doses’ of Vaccines for Flagler This Week, ‘Few If Any’ Over Next 5 as Covid Surges Amid Warnings of Bleak Months

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There were 398 confirmed new cases in Flagler in the week ending Saturday, by far a new record, with no letup in sight and no vaccines ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is sending what little supply of vaccines it has elsewhere for the next five weeks: The Villages qualify, Flagler does not. So even people due for their second shot may not get it as Flagler County’s Covid numbers surge to their worst levels yet. Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler County Health Department, spoke as if at a wake when he updated government officials this morning, and in many ways it was.

Flagler Emergency Chief on Vaccines: ‘We Are Doing Our Best with the Resources that We Have’

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord at the County Fairgrounds vaccination site on Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord explains the county’s covid-19 vaccine response, its constraints, what it’s learned from the experience and what lies ahead in the rollout.

Flagler Vaccine Slots Run Out Within Minutes as Callers Overwhelm County; New Local Cases Rage Out of Control

January 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 62 Comments

Weekly case counts of Covid-19 in Flagler County have again shattered previous records for three successive weeks.

Appointments for a little over 900 vaccine doses available in Flagler for people 65 and over were snapped up within minutes this afternoon, leaving thousands disappointed, angry and questioning the rollout, though Flagler health and county officials are not responsible for the shortage of vaccines distributed locally so far.

Festive New Year Atmosphere as Flagler County’s 1st Responders and Health Department Workers Get Vaccines

December 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Caryn Prather, Flagler County Fire Rescue's Community Paramedic and one of the leaders of the county's 10-months-long Covid-testing program, getting her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday at the Emergency Operations Center. She was one of about 20 people inoculated. (© FlaglerLive)

It was a festive atmosphere Tuesday afternoon in a classroom of Flagler County’s Emergency Operations Center, temporarily converted into a shooting gallery: over the course of an hour, some 20 people, most of them firefighter-paramedics, some of them Department of Health employees, sat for their first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna edition. 

‘Phew, We Dodged One,’ Storm Surge ‘No Longer an Issue’ and Evacuations Unnecessary as Isaias Threat Diminishes

August 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Tropical Storm Isaias will not be much of an issue anymore and evacuations in Flagler won;t be required as emergency personnel ramped down their response Sunday afternoon.

Flagler’s Covid Numbers Spike by 26 in 4 Days Even as Testing Slows; Florida Sees Record 5,500 in 1 Day

June 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Each week's totals for Flagler County, with the week ending on Saturday. The current week is through five days of totals from the Department of Health. (© FlaglerLive)

After rising by 20 cases last week, the highest total since the end of May, Flagler County has recorded another 26 Covid-19 infections in the first four days of this week, while Florida cases continue to break records, turning the state into a leading national hot spot.

Flagler Health Officials Pledge to Keep Up Covid Testing as AdventHealth Phases Out Drive-Up Sites

May 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A nurse with the Florida Department of Health explains the process of specimen collection to a nursing home resident in northeast Florida last week. The Flagler Health Department has deployed strike teams to 71 local assisted living facilities and nursing homes to examine compliance with Covid-19 recommendations and provide material support where needed. On Friday, the department will conduct 300 Covid-19 tests of local facilities' residents and staff. (Michael Baltz)

There is some confusion about how much testing should take place–2 percent of the population per month or overall–and whether it will be available to the extent recommended as society reopens. The guideline from the federal government of testing 2 percent is a monthly goal, not an overall goal.

Flagler’s Covid-19 Deaths Rise to 4 But New Positive Cases Slow as Broader-Criteria Testing Increases

May 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The last six weeks of testing and positive cases in Flagler County.

Flagler’s deaths add to a statewide tally approaching 1,500 as one of the models most closely watched by state and federal officials revised significantly upward its estimate of deaths for Florida now that the state has begun reopening.

Confirmed Flagler Covid-19 Increase By 28 in One Day, to 106, But Local Hospitalizations Still ‘Stable’

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Third year medical student Casey Kelly, who attends the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, getting tested at the Palm Coast campus of Daytona State College last week, a testing location run by Flagler Emergency Management and the Flagler Health Department. (Flagler County)

Flagler County added 28 confirmed Covid-19 cases in a single day today, by far the largest single-day tally of new cases, for a total of 106. But there does not appear to be an equivalent increase in hospitalizations.

Flagler EOC Gets 500 Test Kits in Preparation for Drive-In Site at DSC Campus; County Cases at 35; Florida Deaths Near 300

April 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief persisted, and secured 500 coronavirus test kits for the county. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s emergency management division secured the 500 test kits in addition to those at the health department, and it hopes to secure more. The drive-in location will still be by appointment, with a focus on first responders, health workers and those over 65.

Flagler’s Covid-Emergency Officials Want More Testing and Uniform Orders But Can’t Say When Either Will Happen

March 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

County Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan speaking today at the county's virtual press conference from the Emergency Operations Center, with Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord and Health Department Chief Bob Snyder. The conference had an interpreter for the deaf. (© FlaglerLive via Zoom)

Flagler County’s first-ever virtual news conference revealed the fissures between the state’s patchwork approach to stay-at-home orders and local officials’ desire for more. And it underscored a persistent lack of sufficient testing that would enable health officials to conduct broader surveillance testing and better grasp the true extent of infections locally.

Seemingly Spared So Far, Flagler School, Emergency and Health Officials Prepare for Likely Spread as Coronavirus Cases Jump to 21 in Florida

March 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida Department of Health's most immediate tips to residents in efforts to limit coronavirus.

Flagler school officials are discussing remote instruction and instituting deep cleanings, county and health officials are preparing businesses and government staffs for “social distancing” and other measures as they prepare for what they see as the likely spread of coronavirus locally.

‘We Will See It In Our Community,’ Flagler Emergency Chief Warns of Coronavirus, Detailing Local Response

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord, in the foreground, spoke to the County Commission this morning about the coronavirus and local measures, along with Bob Snyder, head of the Flagler County Health Department.

Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord and Health Department Chief Bob Snyder briefed the County Commission on the creation of a local “pandemic working group” and measures in place to address the coronavirus, whose arrival locally is almost certain.

Flagler Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord Elected to 7th Term to State Emergency Association Board

February 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jonathan Lord in his element. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord was elected to a seventh term on the Board of the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association.

Flagler Braces for Hurricane Season as Florida Reels From 3-Year Streak of Landfalls

June 3, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Flagler County is still paying the millions in bills from Hurricanes Matthew and Irma, and the state is recovering from a direct hit from a Cat 5 last year, costing $26 billion, as the 2019 hurricane season begins.

For Flagler Beach’s 400 Homes Flooded By Irma, Millions in New Repair and Rebuild Grants Bus In

October 2, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The damage on Lambert Avenue last September, a scene repeated through miles of streets along the Intracoastal in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

The federal government is making $616 million available to moderate and low-income property owners and landlords for Hurricane Irma-related repairs across Florida. Flagler Beach is on the priority list.

The Lord Before the Storms: Flagler Emergency Management Chief Wants Awareness, Not Fear

June 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Affable, aware and in control: Jonathan Lord, Flagler County's new emergency chief, brings vast state and local experience to the job. (© FlaglerLive)

Jonathan Lord, Flagler County’s new emergency management chief, has been putting his vast state and local experience to work in preparation for hurricane season.

Jonathan Lord Takes Over Flagler’s Emergency Management as Its 6th Chief in 12 Years

January 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Jonathan Lord. (Flagler County)

Jonathan Lord, 43, had for more than two years been deputy director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, overseeing the statewide response to Hurricanes Hermine, Matthew and Irma firsthand.

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