The Federal Emergency Management Agency official in charge of the southeastern US has resigned three weeks into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
Robert Samaan, the agency’s Region 4 administrator since 2023, announced his departure in a June 17 email to colleagues obtained by Bloomberg Government.
“I am not leaving because I am dissatisfied or upset with anything or anyone and I hope that you don’t take my departure as such,” Samaan wrote, calling the decision to leave “very difficult.”
Samaan, a longtime FEMA employee with a background in emergency management, is the latest high-level official to depart the agency as ...