Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long said he is stepping down from the department he has headed up the past two years.
“While this has been the opportunity of the lifetime, it is time for me to go home to my family – my beautiful wife and two incredible boys,” Long said in a statement issued Wednesday. “As a career emergency management professional, I could not be prouder to have worked alongside the devoted, hardworking men and women of FEMA for the past two years.”
The announcement said Long’s deputy, Peter Gaynor, will step in as acting FEMA administrator.
“I leave knowing the agency is in good hands,” Long said.
His last day will be March 8.
Long, who was appointed by Trump to run the agency in April 2017, oversaw FEMA during the hurricanes that walloped the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico and the wildfires that burned in California.
He was criticized for his agency’s response in Puerto Rico, and House Democrats have said they want to launch investigations into it.