NASHUA – Some raw views of superstorm Sandy’s destruction across the Northeast are being coordinated by Don Davidson, former mayor and Nashua Airport Authority chairman.
Davidson, a reservist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency since 2008, got the call Oct. 29 – the afternoon that Sandy hit – that he would be deployed to help FEMA’s air operations coordination in the wake of the storm.
“Any request that comes through FEMA that involves aviation comes through my desk, those of us in air operations,” Davidson explained, an air operations branch director by title. “The entities that are going to do the flying, the passengers who will fly with them, when it gets to us, it’s already approved by the disaster hierarchy. … We coordinate it so all the flight crews are on the same page.”
He was initially sent to Hartford, Conn., to coordinate the flight crews who are overseeing the debris and power outages there.
This week, however, Davidson is being transferred to New Jersey, he said, a state with tens of thousands of people still homeless from the hurricane, facing months – perhaps years – of rebuilding.
He is up to challenge, however, after spending many months in Burlington, Vt., after Hurricane Irene ripped through the Green Mountain state last year.
“There’s still people in Burlington,” Davidson said, referring to FEMA’s individual and public assistance coordinators, “because there are still things that need to be done.![]()
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