Tracey White

Tracey White is a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience in the search and rescue field. She is employed by the Marshall County Office of Emergency Management as an Assistant Director, Operations Coordinator, Project Life Saver Administrator, and Search and Rescue Coordinator of Northern West Virginia.  She also serves as a volunteer with Tyler County Emergency Management as the Lead K9 Trainer/Instructor. As such, Tracey coordinates search and rescue K9 training and field training for team members throughout the state. She is also a National Instructor for Project Lifesaver-training first responders as Emergency Search Specialists.  She has trained, certified, and operationally deployed with four canines for search and rescue applications in the disciplines of trailing and human remains (land and water). While deployed on operations, when not managing searches, she is serving as a Field Team Leader or as a Canine Search Specialist.

As a National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) Instructor, she teaches search management, land navigation, urban search management, Introduction to Search and Rescue (ISAR), Fundamentals of Search and Rescue (FUNSAR), and Advanced Search and Rescue (ADSAR). Tracey also develops novel and innovative training events for SARtopo applications, compass and mapping, mantracking, and GPS for SAR operators on behalf of Tyler and Marshall Counties.  She is also a “Lost Person Behavior” instructor.  As a guest instructor at Mid-Ohio Valley Technical Institute, she has developed and taught courses in communications, mantracking, navigation, and crime scene clue awareness and detection. Also, in 2019 she joined K9 Behavior Consortium as a Training Specialist/Instructor.

Previously she has served at the West Virginia Department of Corrections, in Law Enforcement and the Fire Service in Marshall County in various capacities.