Tom Cooper

I’ve been asked by our Commission to participate in West Virginia’s 150th Birthday Celebration Parade! The parade is in Charleston on June 22. The route will start in front of the Town Center Mall and circle around to the Capitol Complex (1.8 miles). We will take our new marked vehicle. […]

Folks, We are planning a full scale search and rescue exercise for Saturday, June 1st. We will be doing an all-day search. If there are enough people signed up, we may be able to add some other training activities if requested. The location will be announced soon. The National Weather […]

Folks, The May OEM/CERT/SAR Meeting will be this Thursday May 2nd at7PM at the OEM Office in Middlebourne.We will be discussing the next SAR training/exercise. We are looking for a location to do a mock search the weekend of May 18th or 19th. Please give me your input! Tom Cooper […]

Team, We finally have a date for our next Search and Rescue training! Saturday, April 13th at 10am we will start a full day of training at the Momentive Park. The park is located just south of Friendly, WV along Rt.2. It will be clearly marked. We are hoping to […]

The April OEM/CERT/SAR meeting will be April 11 at 7pm in the Middlebourne OEM office. Tom

Team, We are going to move the shelter exercise out a week. Instead of this Thursday we will start the exercise at noon Thursday March 28, 2013 at the Sistersville Fire Hall. There has been a lot going on around the state in regards to this exercise. It was supposed […]

I am working with Kenny Harris of Wood Emergency Communications on a communications training for this Sunday afternoon. The class will cover public service communications and ham radio communications. There will be hands on information available so the students can see how repeaters, antennas, digital radios and packet radio works. […]

We now have the final dates set for the 2013 NASAR Fundamentals of Search and Rescue (FUNSAR) class! This is a 48 hour class and the dates are as follows ; January 19 and 20 Februarys 2 and 3 These are both Saturdays and Sundays. NASAR REQUIRES ALL students TO […]

I think everyone had a good time at the Christmas Party. We had around 60 folks present. We collected $40 for the AKC Humane Fund, $40 for the Salvation Army, $20 for AmeriCares and $20 for the Red Cross. I want to thank everyone who donated and a special thanks […]

The Tyler OEM/CERT/SAR Christmas Party will be at 6PM, Friday, December 7th at the Sistersville Fire Hall. So far, the menu for the covered dish dinner is; Ham Cocktail meatballs Mashed potatoes Chicken casserole Sweet potato casserole Mashed potato casserole Potato salad Macaroni Salad Corn salad Candied carrots Corn Banana […]

With all the recent turmoil from Hurricane Sandy, there are still are lot of people in need of help. It has been suggested that instead of exchanging gifts this year at the party we might want to make a donation to one of the many organizations helping to put the […]