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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...
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...
