Mobile County taps longtime EMA deputy director to lead agency amid hurricane season

The longtime deputy director of Mobile County’s Emergency Management Agency was named its director on Tuesday at a time of turnover with some of the leading agencies charged with hurricane preparedness in Alabama.

Mike Evans, 54, of Semmes, will oversee an agency with nine full-time employees that operates on an annual budget of $1.6 million. It’s an agency that Evans has been employed with for 21 years, the past 14 as its deputy director.