Tyler Involved in Civil Air Patrol Exercise
Posted/updated on: January 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm
HOUSTON (AP) – Tyler is included in an exercise scheduled across Texas by the Civil Air Patrol to brush up on skills used in emergency operations like Hurricane Ike. Details of the Jan. 28-29 exercise were announced Friday, with plans for many of the state’s more than 3,400 volunteer members to take part. The command post will be at David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport in Spring. Incident command posts are planned in Tyler, Dallas, Denton, Odessa, San Antonio, west Houston, and Victoria.
Maj. Risher Lewis says air and ground teams will train on missions usually associated with responses to natural disasters, missing people, or downed aircraft. Aerial photography also plays a role. Lewis says the CAP, when Ike hit in September 2008, flew more than 350 missions and provided about 40,000 high-definition photos for damage assessment.
