Tom Cooper

Team, The “canine water cadaver training” will start Monday morning, July 20th with a kickoff safety meeting in our office at 9am. After the meeting we will go to the OHIO RIVER at the Sistersville Park and start the training. We plan to be there all day. We will decide […]

Team, The “canine water cadaver training” will start Monday morning, July 20th with a kickoff safety meeting in our office at 9am. After the meeting we will go to Conaway Lake and start the training. We plan to be there all day. We will decide then what the schedule will […]

Team, This is a reminder that we will have a three and a half day “canine water cadaver training” starting July 20th in Sistersville. The instructor will be well known Lisa Higgins from Louisiana. We can have up to 10 canines and handlers and as many support team members as […]

Team, This is a reminder that our July OEM, CERT, SAR meeting will be at our office in Middlebourne, Thursday July 2nd, starting at 7 pm. Refreshments will be provided. The July LEPC meeting will be the same day, same building, in the banquet room down stairs, starting at 9am. […]

Team, This is a reminder that our July OEM, CERT, SAR meeting will be at our office in Middlebourne, Thursday July 2nd, starting at 7 pm. Refreshments will be provided. The July LEPC meeting will be the same day, same building, in the banquet room down stairs, starting at 9am. […]

Team, We’ve been working on the July training schedule. First of all our July OEM, CERT, SAR meeting will be at our office in Middlebourne, Thursday July 2nd, starting at 7 pm. Refreshments will be provided. The July LEPC meeting will be the same day, same building, in the banquet […]

Team, We are gearing up for an outdoor SAR training on June 13th at the Momentive Park. We will start at 9am. Please let me know what you want to train on. We plan to set up a land navigation course with some compass exercises. Some have suggested we do […]

Team, This is a reminder that the next OEM/CERT/SAR meeting will be Thursday June 4th at our office in Middlebourne starting at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided. Please let me know if you are interested in joining us for dinner before the meeting. For those of you who attend the […]

Team, I just got a call asking if we have anyone interested in helping with a search for a freshly buried body in the Elkins area. Please be advised that this is a very rough area along a river. Canine are welcomed. They plan to start the search Saturday morning, […]

Team, This is a reminder that the next OEM/CERT/SAR meeting will be Thursday May 7th at our office in Middlebourne starting at 7pm. We will be planning our next training sessions. Refreshments will be provided. For those of you who attend the LEPC meetings, that meeting will also be Thursday […]

Team, Many of you have indicated that you would be interested in training to operate in our field operations center. We have a new training opportunity coming up this Thursday, April 30th at 6pm at the Middlebourne Senior Center. The WV National Guard is coming in to teach our folks […]

Team, As promised, we have set dates for a free Project Lifesaver training. The instructors would like to do the training on the weekend of April 25th and 26th. The classroom work will start at 9am Saturday at our office in Middlebourne and the Sunday field session will start at […]