"City EMS chief headed to D.C.; Serino tapped for FEMA post" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 10, 2009
Richard A. Serino, the unassuming Dorchester native who climbed the ranks from Codman Hill to the head of Boston Emergency Medical Services over the past 36 years, has been chosen by President Obama to assume the number two post at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
He has served as a national faculty member for the US Department of Defense Domestic Preparedness Program. In addition, Serino has participated in senior leadership programs in national preparedness and homeland defense at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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