Terrell reflects on the end of the year

By Louis Mellini
Staff writer
HAMILTON — Marion County Emergency Management Agency Eric Terrell had an eventful end to 2021, taking a tornado, a plane crash and freezing weather head on.
Terrell, who was hired as the EMA Director on Jan. 1, 2020, spoke with the Journal Record about his whirlwind of a holiday period as well as his time heading up the Marion County EMA.
“It was a lot of firsts at the end of the year for me. We had an airplane crash, a tornado and then some near misses with some winter weather all within about 11 days,” said Terrell. “Plus, that was all in the middle of a good uptick in our COVID