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Chief Nim Kidd of TDEM addresses the class. On April 18-20, 2013, search and rescue instructors from TEXSAR provided training for our partners in the Texas State Guard Maritime Regiment (TMAR). The class this year had 65 members and included two full days of classroom and practical training followed by a night operations exercise on the evening of Friday the 19th and a full-scale exercise on Saturday the 20th. On Sunday, TEXSAR members were recognized by the Commanding General, Brigadier General...
On March 9th and 10th, 2013, at the request of the Texas Rangers, Texas DPS, Graham Police Department, and the Young County Sheriff’s Office, TEXSAR conducted a search in North Texas. Along with TEXSAR partners from Galveston County, Fort Bend County, the Texas State Guard Maritime Regiment (TMAR), Cen-Tex Search & Rescue, Hudson Fire Department K9 Search and Rescue, Lewisville Police Department, the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), and area CERT teams, searchers put in 612 hours during the...
On January 06, 2013 TEXSAR responded to a request from the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management and the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office to assist them with a missing person search in Santa Fe, Texas. TEXSAR members Andy Anthony, Shawn Hohnstreiter, John Gibbs, Wes Meyer, Jeremy White, Chance Berry and Greg Pyles responded. Also, nine Texas Maritime Regiment members responded to support TEXSAR. TEXSAR members served as SAR team leaders and CEO Greg Pyles served as SAR Branch Director. The responding...
TEXSAR responds to a multitude of incidents. As an all-volunteer organization, we focus on response to missing persons, rescue situations and a lot of other things that fall in between. Based primarily out of the Central Texas area, TEXSAR is a state-wide asset. When a serious incident happens, the clock starts ticking at the moment the missing person, or rescue event occurs, not when first responders arrive to help. By the time TEXSAR is typically requested, time has passed and it...
TEXSAR and TMAR were featured by various news agencies for their role in the Austin area Urban Shield exercise that took place on December 1st, 2012. KXAN: Urban Shield Readies Crews for Disaster KXAN: Crew Stage Attack At Expo Center KTBC: Hundreds volunteer for Urban Shield KUT: Urban Shield, Austin’s Terrorism Preparedness Exercise The Gilmer Mirror – TEXSAR COLLABORATES...
