Tom Cooper

Question! Don Williams has offered to teach a First Aid CPR class for us. The question is, which day is the best for the most people? We can either do it Saturday morning September 24th or Sunday afternoon on the 25th. We will only have one class, get your vote […]

Happy Labor Day Weekend! We’ve been asked to participate in the Paden City Labor Day Parade. We plan to drive two of our trucks with trailers and our new Polaris Ranger. We may have some who would like to walk in the parade, that would be great especially with the […]

Team, PLEASE NOTE! The LOCATION for the September OEM volunteer meeting has changed! The meeting will be held at our new warehouse storage facility located at the end of West Adam Street in Paden City (old Corning Glass Plant). Just follow the signs to the Industrial Park. Come to the […]

The Pleasants County Search has been CANCELLED! The missing subject has been contacted. Thank you! Tom

Pleasants County may be needing a search team with canine for a missing person. Please call my cell at 304-771-3674 if you are available this afternoon.

Thanks to dozens of SAR volunteers the final missing body has been found in the Greenbriar County flood area. I want to thank our members as well as all the volunteers who helped in this tremendous effort. Now the body can be laid to rest in a proper fashion. The […]

1) A lot of excavation work has been done at the Greenbrier flood area in recent days and some scent may have been unearthed….we are renewing the search on Tuesday August 9 in WSS. 2) Brooke County is having their Fire/EMS Explorer Camp August 8th through the 12th. Our folks […]

Folks, The OEM meeting will be moved up to the second Thursday, August 11th. As in the past, we will meet at 7pm at our office in Middlebourne. Let me know if you would like to meet at Bogg’s for pizza around 5pm. The LEPC meeting will also be moved […]

Team, Some of the canine handlers plan to meet at our new storage facility in Paden City this Sunday, July 24th and work with their dogs. Everyone getting this email is welcome to come and assist or just watch. They plan to meet at 3PM at our facility, the old […]

Team, I am working on a grant request for a canine training. It has not been approved yet. You can review the training brochure by clicking on http://caesarinc.org/15-Seminar/default.html . I would like to know how many of you would be available to take this training. It may be possible that […]

I’ve been asked by VolunteerWV to collect a list of ALL of our volunteer hours in regards to the June 2016 flood. It is very important that we send these hours to the proper people. West Virginia tax payers are responsible for 25% of the flood relief money from FEMA. […]

Folks, Bill from WV DHSEM SAR has asked us for all available HR resources. They are attempting another search in the White Sulphur Springs area. This search will take place Tuesday, July 12th. We are also asking for one to two trained SAR people to work with each handler. These […]