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Emergency Management
Dan Summers
Dan E. Summers, CEM, FPEM
Director of Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services
D an Summers is currently the Director of
the Collier County Bureau of Emergency
Services for Collier County Government
in Naples, Florida. Mr. Summers holds a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Human Services with a
concentration in Disaster Management from
Thomas Edison State College, in Trenton, New
Jersey. He is a graduate of FEMA’s Professional
Development Series, holds a Certified Emergency
Manager designation from the International
Association of Emergency Management and is a
Florida Professional Emergency Manager from the
Florida Emergency Preparedness Association.
Mr. Summers has over 30 years of disaster and emergency services management experience. He has managed
over 17 presidentially declared disaster events while serving as a local emergency management director in
both Wilmington, North Carolina and Naples, Florida.
A former paramedic and firefighter, Mr. Summers has testified on several occasions before the United States
Congress on matters of disaster operations and disaster recovery funding. Mr. Summers has been a member
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Adjunct Facility for the Emergency Management Institute
since 1989.
Recently, Mr. Summers has received awards for his professional efforts from the International Association of
Emergency Management, North Carolina Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Emergency
Preparedness Association.
Presently, Mr. Summers oversees the Bureau of Emergency Services for Collier County who provides
Emergency Management, Emergency Medical, Aero-medical, and Medical Examiner services to the
residents of Collier County.
He is a recent graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security at the Naval Post Graduate College, in Monterey, CA and served on the Board of Directors of
the National Emergency Management Forum organization promoting education and best practices in
Emergency Management.
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