Brian Scroggins, disaster manager, cares for Las Vegas survivors
Since the day after the mass shooting, Scroggins has organized donations, kept track of the 500 wounded, and organized the services of ministers.
The morning after 58 people died in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Las Vegas Office of Emergency Management called Brian Scroggins with two questions: Would he help establish a family crisis response center? And would he be responsible for the spiritual and religious needs of the victims and their families?
A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Scroggins is a welfare specialist for dozens of southern Nevada churches. He is in charge of ensuring that Mormons are ready for hardship—whether a natural disaster or the loss of a job—by putting aside money and at least a three-month supply of food and water.
He headed to the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 2 and prayed with the distressed and cried with the mourning, such as a man whose fiancée died in his arms.
