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Region's emergency officials urge benefit of new warning systems

...eight electronic billboards for traffic alerts, tornado warnings and other emergencies.Casey Broom, the emergency services director in Lincoln County, has not had quite the same success as Tucker.However, he has made up ground in matching...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-31/regions-emergency-officials-u
Thursday's welcome rain deluges some areas but skips others

...Augusta.Pea-sized hail also fell across parts of Columbia County, according to Pam Tucker, the county's emergency services director.Columbia County's Crawford Creek Wastewater Plant off Columbia Road had the most rainfall in the county...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-11-15/thursdays-welcome-rain-deluge
9/11 Events

...silence; 8:30 a.m.: emergency vehicles at key intersections and all gates; 8:45 a.m.: Department of Emergency Services director gives 1-minute oral warning for execution; 8:46 a.m.: Sirens sound, marking the first strike on the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-09-11/911-events
Augusta smells smoke of south Georgia fire

...the smoke from the south Georgia wildfires up our way this morning," said Pam Tucker, Columbia County's emergency services director, in a news release.Vast wildfires have burned more than 500 square miles in and around the Okefenokee Swamp...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-07-03/augusta-smells-smoke-south-g
Mystery 'boom' in Appling confirmed as minor quake

...on the Richter scale, occurred at 9:26 p.m. and was located near Columbia and Appling-Harlem roads, Emergency Services Director Pam Tucker said.The temblor was not listed on national earthquake monitors, but was confirmed by a seismologist...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-04-24/mystery-boom-appling-confirm
Dam failure maps will remain public, EMA director says

...how they will be warned, and what actions to take in the extremely unlikely event of a dam failure," the emergency services director Pam Tucker said.She conveyed those concerns in September to Donald L. Smith, the corps' Charleston and...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-11-11/dam-failure-maps-will-re
Updated hazard plan documents storm trends

...something we are required to update every five years, and five years go by very quickly," said Pam Tucker, the emergency services director, whose office revised the 3-inch-thick document approved this week by the Georgia and federal emergency...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-12-01/updated-hazard-plan-documents
Three-day exercise in Columbia County to focus on transportation accidents

...Wednesday during which about 50 people per day will be accommodated, said Pam Tucker, Columbia County's emergency services director. Much of the training will be done in classrooms, but a large "hands-on" exercise will begin each day...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-02-12/three-day-exercise-columbia-
Hurricane Irene could hit Georgia's coast

...remains far enough away from the U.S. mainland that current tracks are likely to change, said Columbia County Emergency Services Director Pam Tucker."This far out, anything could happen," she said, adding that early models for Hurricane Katrina...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/hurricane/2011-08-22/hurricane-irene-could-hit
Corps wants Thurmond Dam failure flood maps secret

...Plan for Dam Failure & Flooding" for the Savannah River lakes and dams, said Pam Tucker, the county's emergency services director.The original map data was provided by the corps in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, and has been on the county's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-08-22/corps-says-thurmond-dam-