Kelly R McKinney is the former Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management and Chief Disaster Officer at the American Red Cross in Greater New York. He led a New York City management team to California to assist California Office of Emergency Services during the “Fall 2007 California Firestorm”, which burned nearly a million acres of land from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border. He is the author of Moment of Truth that was released in July by Post Hill Press.