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Following criticism over January’s fatal Metro smoke incident, D.C.’s 911 Center Director, Jennifer Greene, has resigned.

Greene was forced to submit her letter of resignation yesterday, NBC4 reports. Greene and the OUC recently came under scrutiny in a D.C. Council testimony last week when she said that the 911 call center isn’t able to meet the national standard for response times.

January’s smoke incident in the L’Enfant Plaza, which killed one person, has been under intense investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and other local agencies. Among the numerous discrepancies found during the investigation, was a long response time by D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services first responders from when the first 911 calls were made.

“We shoot for that one minute and thirty seconds but we don’t make it. And it looks like we’re deficient when, in fact, we are, actually probably better than our counterparts in this area or, at least, equivalent to our counterparts,” Greene said in last week’s testimony. “And so, we need to definitely look at our standard and make it more realistic and achievable.”

While the search for a new 911 Director is under way, Chris Geldart, the director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, will serve as an interim director while continuing to head HSEMA.