Issue date: 3/20/08 Section: TruLife

So how does he balance his emergency management side with his day job?

"You try," Jagger said. "The good news is that there's a lot of hours in the day that you're not working. ... Bad things aren't always happening. You can deal with a car wreck in an hour most of the time."

He said he uses most of his vacation time on emergency training and sometimes he even has to head to the scene during the day.

"If ... someone's in danger, I do," he said. "I try to be sure that I get my 40 hours. Or I end up using vacation time for it."

Jagger said he hopes to see more Truman students and faculty volunteering to help in emergency services.

"Without volunteers, you can dial 911 all you want and it just really doesn't do you much good," he said. "You get some lady that will ask you, 'What's your emergency?' 911's just a phone number without volunteers."

And as if there was anything left that Jagger hadn't done, he's also dabbled in politics, running for District 2 State Representative in 1994.

"I lost, but we put up a pretty good fight," he said.

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