Tom Cooper

This coming Saturday, October 22nd is the day of our full scale exercise. We will meet at the Sistersville Fire Dept. at 8am and the exercise will start at 9am. We need 5 volunteers to help set up the Health Department’s “inflatable room”. This will take some lugging, but with […]

Tyler County Emergency Management is working with a contractor to develope detailed emergency plans. We would like to include photos and information about previous disasters. This would include for example, floods, blizzards, Big Moses fire, Sistersville fires and major accidents. If you have or know of such information please call […]

Here are some of the events the teams participated in during September. I know I missed a few. 9/1/2011 Tyler County OEM/SAR/CERT planning meeting was held at the Tyler County Emergency Operations Center. 9/1/2011 The Tyler County LEPC held an exercise planning meeting. 9/5/2011 Tyler County volunteers participated in the Paden […]

At our last OEM meeting we discussed getting insurance on the canine and equine response animals. The Commission asked me to check with our provider. I have been advised by the representative that they can not provide this coverage. If anyone knows of any way to do this please let […]

The land nav courses that we set up for last week’s exercise in New Martinsville are still available for use. I am wondering if we should get together next Sunday, October 16th at 2pm as a group and go through the courses. There are 2 GPS courses with 4 points […]

I just got a message from Homeland Security that the missing plane has been found. The search is off. I have no other details at this time. Thanks everyone who responded! We would have had a good team ready for Saturday. I will follow up with an email later this […]

There may soon be a request for ground teams in the Grant/Hardy County area. They have not been able to find the missing aircraft. If you are interested in searching, please leave me a message on the cell phone or an email. I’m not sure when the official calls will […]

As you all know, things have been very busy lately. Our regular OEM/SAR/CERT monthly meeting will be held at the OEM office this Thursday, Oct 6th at 7pm. You are all welcome to come out and join us. Also, as a reminder, the LEPC meeting is Thursday morning at the […]

NEW INFO: Volunteer Search Ends for Missing 3-Year-Old, FBI Considers Case a Crime FBI Special Agent Jeff Killeen said during a media briefing Monday afternoon they are no longer considering the possibility that the young girl walked away from her home. Posted: 3:30 PM Oct 3, 2011 Reporter: WSAZ News […]

I just got the following message from Bill at WV DHS! “NOTE: Teams should standby..we have information that a plane may be down in Hardy Co. Details are sketchy but a plane is confirmed missing…last radio contact with the plane said they wanted to land at Grant Co Airport…the plane […]

Saturday’s training went well. Everyone appeared to have had fun and I believe we all learned something. There was plenty of food and prizes for all 28 participants. Everyone worked hard during the exercise. We found a few minor things that we can improve on, but overall it went very […]

I just talked to Homeland Security and they said that there are currently no needs from SAR teams. This is under FBI advisement, so things can change in a minute. Be ready! There is also a search going on in Nicholas County. No resources are being requested. DHS just now […]