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FUNERAL UPDATE - The Passing of Past Director of Emergency Services Timothy Campbell

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By President Raymond Stackhouse
September 28, 2012

The arraignments for Tim Campbell's funeral are as follows:

Viewing: Friday October 5th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM at Good Samaritan Church - 212 West Lancaster Avenue, Paoli.

Memorial Service: Saturday October 6th beginning at 3:00 PM at Good Samaritan Church - 212 West Lancaster Avenue, Paoli.

Following the service will be a brief ceremony and light refreshments at the Malvern Fire Company, 424 East King Street, Malvern.

Emergency Service Personnel and Apparatus are welcome to attend. Those wishing to bring apparatus are asked to contact Chief Neil Vaughn at 484.639.3060 for information.


Tim passed away early this morning from the traumatic injuries he sustained while teaching at the National Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg Maryland.

Tim was well known in Chester County for his many accomplishments; most notably to us was his position as Director of Emergency Services for Chester County from September 1978 to July 1997. He was also a Life member of the Malvern Fire Company, holding the highest rank of Deputy Fire Chief during his volunteer career.

Some of Tim's other accomplishments are as follows:

Emergency Management Coordinator
Elverson Borough & West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, PA
November 2010 – Present (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for leading the effort to provide community emergency management planning and preparedness.

Instructor
Harrisburg Area Community College
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
December 2007 – Present (4 years 10 months)
ICS 300 and 400 Instructor

Instructor and Subject Matter Expert
Booz, Allen Hamilton
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Management Consulting industry
May 1998 – Present (14 years 5 months) Various
Delivered the Senior Official's Workshop on Weapons of Mass Destruction as part of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici initiative through the Department of Defense. Served as a subject matter expert on various projects

Sole Proprietor
Campbell Group (Public Safety)
July 1997 – Present (15 years 3 months)
Contract directly or indirectly with Federal, State and Local Governments providing Public Safety Consulting, Training and System Development, Emergency Services Response System Analysis, Public Safety Communications System Analysis & Exercise Design and Development. Contract directly or indirectly with K-12 school districts and institutions of higher education to provide staff training and exercise of emergency plans, procedures and policies.

Adjunct Faculty
FEMA - EMI - NFA
Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry
August 1984 – Present (28 years 2 months)
Instructor/Controller at EMI and NFA
Teach a series of courses including the Incident Command System Train the Trainer, Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program Train the Trainer, Integrated Emergency Management Course, Multi-Hazard Planning for Higher Education, Local Government Role in Recovery, Emergency Operations Center-Incident Management Team Interface, Multi-Hazards Planning for Schools, Multi Agency Coordination and Emergency Operations Center Management and Operations courses. Also, the National Fire Academy Executive Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency Management, Emergency Response to Terrorism: Strategies and Tactical Considerations for Supervisors, Command & Control of Natural & Man-made Disasters and Administration of Public Assistance for Community Recovery.

Local Level Instructor
Pennsylvania State Fire Academy
July 1978 – Present (34 years 3 months)
Provide local level fire, haz-mat and rescue instruction in incident command and operations.

Subject Matter Expert
C2TI
August 2010 – August 2011 (1 year 1 month)
Served as Subject Matter Expert for course devlopment.

Consultant
CMCG, Inc
October 2009 – April 2011 (1 year 7 months)
Provide public safety communications consulting services

Contractor
Human Technology Inc.
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
December 1997 – February 2011 (13 years 3 months)
Contracted as subject matter expert and instructor for emergency and incident management courses.

Observer-Controller
Texas A&M TEEX NERRTC
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
November 2001 – November 2009 (8 years 1 month)
Provide Exercise observation, evaluation and mentoring

Subject Matter Expert
L-3 MPRI
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry
May 2006 – August 2006 (4 months)
Served as prime subject matter expert for a review of Bulgaria's emergency management programs for USDOJ ICITAP

Instructor
US State Department, Diplomatic Security, ATA Program
2001 – 2002 (1 year)
Provided training in ICS, Major Incident Management and Weapons of Mass Destruction response to foreign public safety services involved in protecting United States business, diplomatic personnel and facilities.

Please join me in taking a few minutes to reflect on how Tim's work effected us all here in Chester County and obviously others around the world as well.

Viewing and funeral arrangements are still being made and will be announced once available.


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