HOBOKEN—Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced Monday that she has appointed Thomas Molta as the Coordinator of Hoboken’s Office of Emergency Management, filling the vacancy created when Kenneth Ferrante was promoted to police chief beginning on Dec. 1.
Molta is the president of the 100-member Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps, where he has served for 34 years. He previously served for 25 years in the Hoboken Fire Department and retired in 2010 as a Fire Captain. Mr. Molta has been involved in the emergency response to many major events including Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene, the World Trade Center attacks, PATH train crashes, apartment building fires in the 1980s, and the Henkel Chemical Plant incident in 2002.
Thomas Molta named new Hoboken OEM Coordinator
