Tom Cooper

November 19, 2018

Tyler County Volunteer’s Christmas Party

The Tyler County OEM Volunteer Christmas Party will be held Saturday, December 1st in the banquet room of the Middlebourne Senior Center (504 Cherry Street). Because we have so many people traveling long distances to our events we are planning to eat at 3:00PM giving us time to socialize both […]
June 27, 2018

Tyler OEM Training Schedule

Search and Rescue Training  There is funding available to help with most of these trainings! Please send me any other training opportunities that you are aware of.  tjcooper@frontier.com July July 5 – LEPC Meeting July 7 – Water K-9 training at Paden City July 14 – Tyler SAR monthly field […]
May 25, 2018

June Training Summery

Here is what we have planned for June training; June 9th , 9:00am at the – We will be hosting a SARTopo digital map class at the Middlebourne Senior Center. This is a very simple yet powerful online/offline mapping program we will be using in the future. Patty Lindsey will be the instructor. […]
April 26, 2018

May Training Schedule

April 29th – The canine handlers plan to get together at the Paden City warehouse around 8am to do some training. May 3rd– The Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) meeting is at 9am in the Middlebourne Senior Center. May 6th – The canine handlers plan to get together at the Paden […]
March 8, 2018

March Field Team Training

Team, Our Field Team Training will be this Saturday, March 10th, starting at 10:00 am. We will train at the Momentive Employee Park. The gate will be open at 9:45. I’m still working on the details but we plan to train on clue awareness and search patterns. We may throw […]
February 7, 2018

February Field Training

We are set to have our February field training this Saturday the 10th at the Momentive Park starting at 10am. We will start with a medical training on “bleeding control” instructed by Dr. McClure. After this we will be discussing the broad subject of “command staff support functions”. For this reason we […]
February 2, 2018

February SAR Training

Team, We are planning the next field team training for February 10th. Location and details will be sent out next week. The canine handlers plan to train tomorrow, Saturday the 3rd, at our PC warehouse. They will start at 11:00am. All handlers and those who wish to work with them […]
January 18, 2018

January Search and Rescue Training

Although plans had to be changed last week we are on schedule for our January SAR field training. We plan to meet at the Arvilla Community Center this Saturday, Jan 20th at 10:00am. Call or email me if you need directions. The plan is to have Dr. McClure do a […]
January 10, 2018

January Training Date Change

Due to the predicted wintry mix of weather I would like to move the field training up to Saturday January 20th. It sounds like the road conditions could be very bad. The training plan and place will be posted next week. Tom
December 5, 2017

Tyler OEM Christmas Party & Training

Hello everyone, The Tyler OEM Christmas Party will be at the Middlebourne Senior Center Banquet Room Friday, December 8th at 6:00pm. As always, it will be a covered dish dinner with ham being provided. After the dinner we will have a yankee gift exchange ($10 value). (For Friday night we […]
November 14, 2017

December Training/Party Update

Folks, I’ve had to make a change to our December calendar. I have booked the Middlebourne Senior Center Banquet Room for our Christmas Party for Friday, December 8th at 6:00pm. Our SAR field training/exercise will be on the following Saturday morning of December 9th. Details will also be sent out […]