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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...
Quick Monthly Update: Monday evening November 12th is the monthly board meeting and as always you all are welcome to join us from 7-9 at the south Catfish Parlour on Ben White. Tuesday Nov. 13th evenings team training will be at the Jollyville Fire Dept at 9218 Anderson Mill Road 78729 from 7-9 and we’ll be doing group break outs and working on Urban Shield tasks. Training and Deployment Committee meeting will be 7-9 on the 20th, location TBD and the next team training will be...
On Saturday, October 27, nine TEXSAR members traveled to Bryan, TX to assist Cen-Tex SAR during a 200-person Search and Rescue training exercise at Lake Bryan. TEXSAR members fulfilled the roles of Incident Command personnel and canine flankers during the large exercise, which included the Texas A&M Forest Service, the Texas State Guard Maritime Regiment, Bryan Police and Fire Departments, Texas Department of Public Safety, and many other units and agencies to see how well multiple groups can coordinate and work together...
