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County hires emergency
management director
Gibbs served
in Multnomah
County
Victim hospitalized after shooting
Seaside Signal
Police are seeking the
whereabouts of Jeremy Lee
Morinville, a 24-year-old
Warrenton man considered
a suspect in a Seaside gun
incident.
At about 2:45 p.m. on Sun-
day, Seaside p olice received
a report that a gunshot wound
victim was being treated at
By ERICK BENGEL
The Astorian
Clatsop County has
hired an emergency man-
agement director.
Justin Gibbs recently
served as interim divi-
sion chief of planning
at Multnomah County’s
Emergency Management
Planning Section.
At Clatsop County, he
will be responsible for
leading emergency man-
agement — a new county
department that until
recently was a county
office.
Earlier this year, the
county said the director
position would be funded
by money shifted from
an emergency manage-
ment coordinator role, a
long-vacant job.
Housed at Camp Rilea
Armed Forces Train-
ing Center, the coun-
ty’s emergency manage-
ment responds to floods,
fires, windstorms and
other natural hazards and
disasters, often collabo-
rating with local jurisdic-
tions and organizations,
such as cities, schools
and fire districts.
During the coronavi-
rus pandemic, emergency
management helped dis-
tribute personal pro-
tective equipment and
played a role in setting
up mass vaccination clin-
ics, the county said.
The department also
prepares the region for
the looming Cascadia
Subduction Zone earth-
quake and tsunami.
“My focus will be to
develop strong relation-
ships with the cities to
ensure they are supported
across all phases of
emergency management,
as well as concurrently
making sure that Clat-
sop County is operation-
Suspect sought in Seaside gun incident
Providence Seaside Hospi-
tal. The victim had been shot
at his home and drove to the
hospital for treatment, police
said. Injuries were described
as non-life-threatening and
the victim was taken to Port-
land for continuing care.
The victim and suspect
are known to each other,
police said, and police do
not believe it was a random
encounter.
Police said Morinville ,
who was recently released
from prison, should be
considered
armed
and
dangerous.
On Monday, Morin-
ville remained at-large. The
search remains active and
ongoing.
Anyone with informa-
tion on Morinville’s where-
abouts is asked to call 911
or to contact Sgt. Detective
Josh Gregory of the Sea-
side Police Department at
503-738-6311.
Jeremy Morinville in a 2019
booking photo.
Justin Gibbs
ally ready to respond to
disasters that will inevi-
tably impact unincorpo-
rated areas of the juris-
diction,” Gibbs said in a
statement.
Gibbs hails from
North
Carolina.
At
Hyde County, he served
as emergency services
director after working as
a 911 database adminis-
trator, the county said.
“His tenure included
response to multiple hur-
ricanes, storms and wild-
fires, as well as an assign-
ment to Puerto Rico as a
planning section chief
for the Hurricane Maria
response in 2017,” the
county wrote.
Tiffany Brown, who
manages and directs the
Emergency Operations
Center, reports to Gibbs.
The idea of turning
emergency management
into a director-led depart-
ment has been contem-
plated for about a dozen
years. Emergency man-
agement, a statutorily
required agency, left the
purview of the sheriff’s
office to the county man-
ager’s office in 2010.
“Having been born
and raised on the coast
of North Carolina, I very
much feel at home,”
Gibbs said in a statement.
“I look forward to learn-
ing, growing and becom-
ing a member of the com-
munity and serving its
members with integrity.”
Seaside Fire
Clatsop County Task Force 20 responded to the Rum Creek Fire in Josephine County on Aug. 27.
Local crew responds to Rum Creek fi re
Seaside Signal
Saturday afternoon, Clat-
sop County’s Task Force 20
was deployed to the Rum
Creek Fire, Seaside Chief
Joey Daniels said. Divi-
sion Chief David Rankin is
task force leader along with
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leader.
The team assembled after
Gov. Kate Brown declared
a confl agration for the fi re,
clearing the way for the state
fi re marshal to mobilize fi re-
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the fi re.
At about 4:30 p.m., Sea-
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