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  • August

    Members of the Savannah District's Temporary Emergency Power Team and 249th Engineer Battalion chart locations of life-saving facilities during a regional power mission exercise conducted July 20 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Distribution Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Temporary emergency power team readies for hurricane season

    ATLANTA, Ga. – With fair skies all over the Southeast, inside an emergency operations center (EOC) Hurricane “Noree” pummels coastal and inland Georgia. She displaces more than 30,000 individuals and leaves the state’s most-populated, economic hub crippled in the dark.

  • June

    Old Dominion University seniors, Chance Rabun, Michael Chatman and Amanda Downs, brief ODU faculty and Corps advisory team on their final senior design report: the Emergency Power Needs for Critical Facilities project. David Gary, Norfolk District’s Mechanical and Electrical Section chief, said the final report was complete and comprehensive.

    Hampton Roads communities use student ingenuity, benefit from emergency power assessments

    With the 2014 hurricane season upon us, 10 critical facilities throughout Chesapeake, Gloucester County and James City County can rest easier knowing their emergency power needs have been accurately documented.
  • Joseph Rael (right) and Kelly Adams (left) of the Emergency Power team check to ensure a generator is ready for installation during the Combined Response Mission Exercise in Philadelphia. Staff Sgt. James Phillips of the 249th Prime Power Battalion observes activities.

    USACE holds emergency response exercise in Philadelphia

    More than 150 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel descended on Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia June 10-14 to participate in a national emergency response exercise. The exercise, which involved simulating response activities to a category 3 hurricane, was designed to prepare teams and individuals for real events.