About Us

 All of our staff come from various backgrounds, with a lifetime's worth of dedication to public safety and emergency management. 

 

Fire Chief Jacob Black - Interim OEM Director

 

Hanna Padilla - Coordinator

Hanna is Santa Fe born and raised.  She started her professional career with Santa Fe County well over a decade ago.  Starting with the Santa Fe County Regional Emergency Communications Center (RECC) as a dispatcher, then moving up the ranks. From there, she worked with our Community Services Department and I.T. as an administrator.  She hopes to stay in Emergency Management and eventually retire from the county.  She is currently studying hard for her FEMA Basic Academy Certificate and has obtained several other certificates and trainings while here. 

 

Angelina Basile - Coordinator

Our most recent hire, Angelina is orginally from Massachusetts where she worked in EMS, while working on her Bachelors of Science in Emergency Management, which she recieved from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.  She then volunteered to deploy with FEMA to California, to assist in the Covid Emergency in 2020.  After that mission, she settled in Santa Fe and worked for the New Mexico Department of Health as their emergency management training coordinator.  From there she joined our team and wishes to be a leader in Emergency Management.