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The Woman Who Coordinated After 9/11 | Bristol Virginia News
On September 11, 2001, Umrichin—an accountant turned emergency management coordinator—woke to chaos as the World Trade Center fell. Though she wasn’t at Ground Zero, she became a vital hub for coordinating relief efforts, managing agencies and distributing critical supplies like helmets, shovels, and even refrigerated boxcars. What began as a triage plan at Fort Lee High School quickly revealed the grim reality: no survivors awaited them. Within a year, she committed full-time to emergency management, where she learned that preparedness must include old-school tools like ham radio—and that no…
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