Author Archives: 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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →